Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 363 | |
Title: | LIONHEAD SPOUT | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Object Number: | 363 | |
Old Number: | MF-00126 (lapsed) | |
Description: | Lionhead spout with deeply furrowed brow, heavy rounded browridge, incised groove outlining eye with sharp lids; wrinkleon top of nose, curving up toward eye, 5 incised whiskers, nose flat in front with outlined nostrils; crinkled upper lip, teeth carefully carved. | |
Material: | Tan clay with frequent fine red, rare coarse red mudstone inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Redder than 10YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., left half of head from brows to upper jaw, broken at base of mane locks. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.116 L00.10 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | ? Early Roman ? | |
Area: | Julian Basilica | |
Context: | NB75 P303 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P097 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Julian Basilica Image: bw 1998 005 24 Basket: NB75 P303 Notebook Page: NB 75, spread 57 (pp. 302 - 303) |