Corinth Object: FA 54
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   FA 54
Title:   TERRACOTTA PALMETTE ANTEFIX
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   FA
Object Number:   54
Description:   Antefix with 11-leaf palmette with mushroom hear, designed to fit over lateral sima. Along bottom plain band with plastic rib above. Above, two antithetic tendrils rise from corners of plaque, turning in nearly horizontally, then curling out. Top ends of tendrils biforcate under leaf diagonally striated (now largely worn). Pendant 5-leaf palmette with two leaves above, hanging from juncture of tendrils. Erect 11-petal palmettes, of which two lowest rt. petals preserved. Cf. FA-48 with refs. to others.
Material:   Moderately fine buff clay with occasional red mudstone inclusions fired pink at core.
Munsell Color:   Between 10YR 8/3 and 10YR 7/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., lower half antefix plaque from bottom edge to above heart; broken in back.
Dimensions Actual:   W00.205 (bottom)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.171
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Basket: , Provenance unknown