| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KT 41046 | |
| Title: | SEATED DOVE FIGURINE | |
| Category: | Minor Finds | |
| Category Code: | KT | |
| Object Number: | 41 | |
| Object Suffix: | 046 | |
| Description: | Handmade seated dove with long tail tapering to blunt point. Feet separated by vee in front and distinguished from body by very low arch. Clay folded in at front of body. Broad body with narrow neck leading directly to small head with thin, blunt beak. Similar to KT 41-52, from immediately southeast of the Terracotta Factory and KT 41-48 (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.2, inv. XXVII, 15) from Deposit 6 of the Terracotta Factory. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few medium inclusions and few fine voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete, white slip poorly preserved | |
| Manufacture: | F17 U HM Seated | |
| Weight Description: | 0.008 | |
| Weight: | 0.008 | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, p. 23) | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB108 P142 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, South of Court, Deposit 1 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter |
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