Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FR 3 | |
Title: | ARCHAIC RIDGE-PALMETTE | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FR | |
Object Number: | 3 | |
Description: | Pentagonal cover tile sloping down to left and right of palmette. W. cover 0.257. One sides a vertical face 0.051 along top, below which broken surface 0.051m. high which projects slightly beyond upper face. Projecting from top is tall palmette antefix with outline cut to follow decoration. | |
Decoration: | Painted on both faces are 2 scrolls making 3 loops, which continues in a band curving down from center and out to either lower corner of antefix. Scroll black. In angle below scroll is single drop-shaped petal; another larger one between two stems, hanging down from center. | |
Material: | Yellow-pinkish coarse clay, greenish-yellow slip. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment, lower part of palmette with one volute. | |
Dimensions Actual: | L. from keel to edge 0.135, Th. at base palmette 0.065, W. 0.26 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.16 H. 0.16 | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance unknown | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 56, n. 47; Typed from Corinth IV.1.; Cited Winter Archterr | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994 Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 1984 051 20 |