Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 10861 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DOG | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 10861 | |
Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dog with body round in section, straight back, short thick back leg in inverted V position, and long thick tail pointed straight back. Similar to KT32-22 (Corinth XV.2 Class XXV Middle Group p. 180 no. 7 pl. 39) but tail flatter and straighter. | |
Decoration: | Two horizontal brown paint stripes on outer side of legs and traces of herring bone pattern radiating from central stripe along ridge of back to tail. | |
Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with frequent fine sparkling, few small tabular angular white, and rare medium tabular angular orange inclusions and few fine platy angular voids | |
Munsell Color: | Clay: 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown), Paint: 5YR 4/3 (reddish brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving body, part of l. and r. hind leg and tail. Some paint preserved. | |
Manufacture: | F11 U HM | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. of torso 0.016 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.037, L.0.060, W. 0.026 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | 5th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class XXV no. 7 Stelai Shrine A) | |
Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
Context: | NB247 B5 P116 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 003 22 Basket: NB247 B5 P116 Notebook Page: NB 247, spread 63 (pp. 116 - 117) |