Corinth Object: FC 2011 2
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   FC 2011 2
Title:   EARLY ARCHAIC COMBINATION HIP TILE
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   FC
Year:   2011
Object Number:   2
Description:   Combination hip tile consisting of cover at free front corner; hip line becoming more recessed toward front corner. Cover portion set off from pan by vertical edge (H. 0.027-0.030). Top surface of cover convex, forming Y-shaped surface covering subsidiary ridge tiles that run down flank and hip of roof; top convex surfaces of the two legs of the Y meet in a crease. Underside of tile is unslipped and trimmed slightly to receive the tile that it overlapped; raised lip (W. 0.041) at edges of front corner. According to CKW, without doubt from Early Archaic Temple of Apollo (findspot over 250m north of Temple of Apollo). Similar to FP-314 and FC-79 (except underside).
Decoration:   Slip on top and front surfaces only.
Material:   Coarse clay with abundant large to v. large spherical, tabular, and platy angular mudstone, few large to v. large spherical rounded white lime inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Slip: between 1Y 6/3 and 3Y 6/4
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving most of cover element but with pan broken away. Slip on surface cracked.
Manufacture:   MM
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Area:   Theater
Context:   Theater
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Recovered in late wash over pavement at very west end of the west Roman parados, random find.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2011, Vol. 82, p. 502; Sapirstein 2009, p. 199, n. 22; Williams 2013, Hesperia 82.3, cat. 1
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Theater
Image: digital 2011 1252