Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 1089 | |
Title: | LIONHEAD SPOUT | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Object Number: | 1089 | |
Description: | Large-scale lionhead with traces of deeply carved mane locks, furrowed brow beneath which large, shallow-set eyes with thick upper lid, groove outlining iris, hole for pupil. Short blunt muzzle, deeply gouged nostrils, whiskers not incised, with stump of large tooth hanging down from coarsely cut upper lip. Remnants of slip on face. | |
Material: | Reddish-tan coarse clay with numerous large red inclusions (to 7-8 mm.). | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6.5/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper half of head from lt. side of forehead, lt. ear (?), both eyes, muzzle and upper lip. Surface badly pitted. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | L00.088 (between inner corner eyes) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.30 (ca.) W00.225 (ca.) | |
Period: | Hellenistic | |
Chronology: | ? or Roman ? | |
Area: | Shear Excavations | |
Context: | Shear Excavations, From Shear Aportheke | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Shear Excavations Basket: Shear Excavations, From Shear Aportheke |