| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KT 55001 | |
| Title: | MINIATURE TERRACOTTA CHAIR | |
| Category: | Minor Finds | |
| Category Code: | KT | |
| Object Number: | 55 | |
| Object Suffix: | 001 | |
| Description: | Terracotta model chair with square seat and upward-flaring projections at front corners. Low back formed by broad, flat rail (W. 0.012) and three upright stiles (W 0.006-0.007), central one flat and other cylindrical. Legs round in section, bent at ends to form rounded, flattened feet. Back slightly tilted legs set in slanting position, forward and backward respectively. From the Circle Deposit, and probably of late 5th century date. There are fragments of three other chairs of exactly the same type. In one of these, from the Circular South Shrine, the horns on the corners are even more exaggerated. Part of another chair, similar in type except that there are only two back supports instead of three and that the legs are pointed at the ends and curve very strongly outward to the sides, was found in the Shrine of the Double Stele. This type of chair is the | |
| Material: | Buff clay, partly fired pink. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining frgts., missing one front right corner of seat and front right leg, part of back left leg, and part of left chair back. Restored in plaster. | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Late 5th c. according to Corinth 15.2 | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Circle Deposit. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 9, p. 209 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: digital 2015 0135 Image: digital 2015 0136 Image: digital 2015 0137 Basket: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 25 (pp. 40 - 41) |
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