| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FR 102 | |
| Title: | RIDGE PALMETTE, APOLLO TEMPLE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FR | |
| Object Number: | 102 | |
| Description: | From a ridge palmette with completely flat surfaces (no relief) decorated on both faces with red and black paint and separating reserved bands. Cf. FA 542, FR 101 AB | |
| Decoration: | The surving decoration, almost identical on front and back, consists of part of one spiral and of the three leaves which separated the original two spirals at the top. The central leaf is black, those on the sides are red. But the central leaf on one side is solid black while on the other side it has a reserved leaf-shaped pattern at center. | |
| Material: | Fine hard clay with extremely fine grit (grog). Clay pinkish at core, yellowish buff near exterior; slip of extremely fine yellow clay 0.0025 thick. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Fragment from top center of ridge palmette, original surface survives at top. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. max 0.057, Th. min 0.04 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.148 | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB520 B4 P21 | |
| Findspot Description: | FIB 611, no. 498 | |
| Bibliography: | Robinson, Hesperia 1976, p. 236, n. 101; Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 56, n. 47; Cited Winter Archterr | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Robinson, Hesperia 45:3, 1976a Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994 Monument: Temple Hill Images (4) Basket: NB520 B4 P21 |
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