| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FT 279 | |
| Title: | CLASSICAL CORINTHIAN EAVES TILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FT | |
| Object Number: | 279 | |
| Old Number: | Lot 2107:5 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Corinthian eaves tile: flat pan, with triangular rim, vertical outer face, flat lip. On right face, a flat band along front part of lower edge, 0.025 wide, projecting 0.007, pres. L. 0.103, for locking into neighboring tile. Decorative panel on underside corresponds in width to projecting band. | |
| Decoration: | Front underside of tile decorated with a stripe of dilute glaze (W. 0.019), purple stripe (W. 0.011), an anthemion-palmette chain in light on black background. Preserved is half of lotus or honeysuckle with one upright petal, single slender sepal lying horizontally under petal, and curling down at tip to left; beneath, part of tendril linking honeysuckle to missing palmette; beneath this, row of beads. | |
| Material: | Coarse yellow clay with 3-5 large angular black mudstone inclusions; fine slip | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving right edge, complete height, broken three sides; decorative border incomplete. | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
| Context: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, LOT 2107 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Mike Ierardi and Gretchen Umholtz found the tile in the collapsed tile pile west of west temple, T-U:16-17 (April 2015); NB believes that it came from excavations on the top of the Upper Terrace. | |
| Site: | Acrocorinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore Image: digital 2016 0002 Image: digital 2016 0003 Basket: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore |
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