| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FC 79 | |
| Title: | HIP COVER TILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FC | |
| Object Number: | 79 | |
| Description: | Hip cover tile with pan, attached to two adjacent sides with hip line running along top of cover from front corner. Other two ends finished. Top of cover creased from center to point where they meet. Cut underneath to receive two curved covers; cover and pan rabbets chiseled after firing. Original pre-firing cutting is intact at inner margins of cover rabbet, indicating floor was lowered by ca. 0.01 after firing. Likely belonging to Temple of Apollo | |
| Decoration: | Buff slip. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with grits. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., hip cover tile with bit of pan preserved, cover complete. | |
| Weight Description: | 5.2 kg | |
| Weight: | 5.2 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB164 P177 | |
| Bibliography: | Sapirstein 2008 (Dissertation); Hesperia 2009, Vol. 78, p. 199, Footnote 22 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple Hill Images (4) Basket: NB164 P177 Notebook Page: NB 164, spread 95 (pp. 177 - 178) |
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