| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 543 | |
| Title: | COMBINATION TILE WITH PENTAGONAL ANTEFIX, ARCHAIC | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Object Number: | 543 | |
| Description: | From a pan/cover-tile. The cover element ends in an antefix of tympanon form (truncated at sides). The front edge of the tile is marked by a guilloche, the centers laid out with care and the circular elements inscribed with a compass. The guilloche consists of a central eye painted red and spiral bands consisting of a broad (0.014 m.) black band enclosed by two reserved bands (0.006 m.). The antefix face is marked by relief decoration consisting of two S-spirals separated by a palmette of 3? leaves. The spirals were painted red, the leaves black. Probably from the 6th century Temple of Apollo? C.f. T 50 (neg. 8651), T 151 (neg. 5551, 8766), T 160 (neg. 2555), T 166 (neg. 5525, 8651), FA 327 and FA 328 (negs. 5525), type similar, rather, to A 101- 101 A. | |
| Material: | Hard yellowish to yellowish-buff clay with much black grit; fine yellow slip. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Small part of eavestile, pan-tile surmounted by antefix /cover-tile, all in one piece; half of antefix missing and surface worn. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of pan-tile pan 0.061 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.163, W. 0.19, Depth 0.14 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | H. 0.175 | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB521 B32 P164 | |
| Findspot Description: | FIB566 no. 215 | |
| Bibliography: | Robinson, Hesperia 1976, p. 236, pl. 53; Williams, ΣΤΗΛΗ, Kontoleon Festschrift, p. 348, n. 13; Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 52; Cited Winter Archterr | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publications (4) Monument: Temple Hill Image: bw 1975 058 03 Image: bw 1985 080 05 Basket: NB521 B32 P164 Notebook Page: NB 521, spread 87 (p. 165) |
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