| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FT 243 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC EAVES TILE WITH ATTACHED ANTEFIX | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FT | |
| Object Number: | 243 | |
| Description: | Eaves tile with flat undersurface, vertical face, lt. joint cut deeply in, with narrow joining surface ca. 00.01 at base. Made in one piece with it is pentagonal cover tile (H00.040 on side) which ends in an antefix. Only base of antefix preserved, set back 2 mm. from face of eaves. Antefix continued above cover, presumably ending in palmette, as FA-3, Corinth IV.1 pl. II. | |
| Decoration: | Eaves tile slipped with good buff-tan slip on top and front face, resting surface and soffit unslipped. On front face in purple and brown black on light ground is guilloche, to rt. Each braid consists of one reserved strand, one dark, each lightly outlined with incised line and black overpaint. Central eye brown black. Antefix and cover slipped. On face of antefix border painted purple along bottom, black on rt. edge. Tip of reversed lotus petal extending to corner, leaf in relief, surrounded by black outline; leaf itself reserved with brown-black center. For same type of cf. FA-2, FA-3, FA-17, FA-18 | |
| Material: | Coarse clay with dense admixture of fine to coarser (to 3 mm.) black mudstone, clay fired consistently buff throughout. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slip: 2.5Y 8/3 5Y 7.5/3 ( where cleanest) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving left end of eaves tile, right end of antefix and cover tile. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. eaves 0.057 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.123, L. eaves 0.21, Th. antefix 0.11, Depth cover 0.115, H. antefix 0.065 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | NB322 P846 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | FIB Inv. 1987 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater |
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