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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KN 78 | | Title: | | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KN | | Object Number: | | 78 | | Description: | | Hawskbeak type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with Doric frieze, crude hawksbeak crowning molding, and additional superstructure of an undetermined nature, handmade. Crowning molding: half-round (0.008), hawskbeak (H. 0.037-0.041), fascia (H. 0.012). | | Decoration: | | Triglyphs painted black. Half-round and fascia painted red. Doric leaf patterns painted on upper and lower surfaces of hawskbeak. Leaves red and black in alternation, both horizontally and vertically, with black interstices. Traces of black paint on superstructure above molding. | | Material: | | Evenly fired orange-buff clay. Fine without inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | 5YR 7/6 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Two joining fragments preserve portion of upper part of side, with Doric frieze, crowning molding (complete), and base of superstructure(?). Interior surface preserved. | | Manufacture: | | Moldmade | | Dimensions Actual: | | a.W. 0.062 (metopes); a.W. 0.045-0.046 (triglyphs); a.H. 0.008 (taenia) | | Dimensions Preserved: | | p.L. 0.237; p.H. 0.146; p.H. 0.053 (triglyphs) | | Period: | | 5th c. B.C. | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB123 P111 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. | | Bibliography: | | Payne, Necrocorinthia, 112; Corinth XV-2, 273-274, 282, no. 67, pl. 59; Rupp, Greek Altars, cat. TC 9, fig. 302. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 6474
Notebook Page: NB 123, spread 61 (pp. 111 - 112)
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