Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 2015 2 | |
Title: | PAINTED TERRACOTTA TILE | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Year: | 2015 | |
Object Number: | 2 | |
Description: | Overhang of large horizontal sima of even thickness, smoothed back and front. From backwall of South Stoa (CKW, pers. Comm.). | |
Decoration: | Painted reddish-orange band (W. 0.027) with single thin band of purple within it, below white double bead and reel pattern on pale purple background crowned with palmette scroll. Pattern similar to eaves tiles from Stoa roof, see Broneer 1954, Corinth I.4, pl. 20, no. 4. | |
Material: | Coarse pale yellow clay with few medium to large subrounded angular and tabular angular gray and red inclusions and rare medium to very large voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 5Y 8/2-3 (pale yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small portion of overhang of horizontal sima. Edge stained brown. | |
Manufacture: | CO | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.05 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.192, W. 0.173 | |
Weight Description: | 1.68 | |
Weight: | 1.68 | |
Period: | Hellenistic | |
Chronology: | early 3rd c. BC, based on Stoa date | |
Area: | South Stoa | |
Context: | South Stoa, context 123 | |
South Stoa, context 123, LOT 2015 088 | ||
LOT 2015 086 | ||
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | James 2019, Hesperia 88.1, cat. 33 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: digital 2015 3817 Basket: South Stoa, context 123 |