| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FM 1999 1 | |
| Title: | FLAT WALL TILE WITH CRENELATED EDGE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FM | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Rectangular tile, sharply but unevenly cut, probably by knife. Front vertical face dentilated by knife with spaces cut diagonally and roughly between dentils. Dentils are between 00.028-00.038 m. with space between 00.021-00.030 m. wide. On top horizontal surfaceknife-incised diagonal line from top left corner. Cut line shows that tile square before it was cut into a rectangle. Bottom surface has hollow into tile for over half its depth, righthand side. Hollow probably result of sloppy work or flaw. | |
| Material: | Clay relatively clean, compact but poorly mixed. Fired buff to tan. Some lime inclusions (1 to 00.04 m.), some black, sandy. Lamp of unmixed clay | |
| Munsell Color: | Between 10YR 7.2/2 - 8.5YR-9YR 6/4 ; lump: 5.5YR-6YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Complete except for large gouge out of one face. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L. 0.303, D. 0.16, Th. 0.0347 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Frankish | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, From reservoir built into NE corner of peristyle c | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater |
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