| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 12543 | |
| Title: | DOUBLE CORNUCOPIA (DIKERAS) | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 12543 | |
| Description: | One horn partly broken, another almost intact, triangular part behind offering partly broken. Cornucopia, consisting of two joined baskets, with fruit, cakes, bunches of grapes and a phallus. For area of findspot, cf. NB295 P047 to P048, plan, p. 41, NB 282, P070 and P083. | |
| Decoration: | Considerable remains of white slip all over, added black and pink paint, and faint remains of gilding. Pink fruit, possibly apple, at left. Black fruit, possibly apple, at right. Upper part of cornucopia with diagonal incised lines, very similar to coin. | |
| Material: | Fine clay, numerous tiny gray inclusions, voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two frgts., joined and conserved together. One basket partly broken, another almost wholly. Considerable remains of white paint, some black paint, and very small trace of pink paint preserved on one apple of cornucopia at left. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.063; W. 0.046; max. Diam. Of intact horn 0.025 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | mid-third century to 146 B.C. | |
| Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
| Context: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, LOT 0869 | |
| Findspot Description: | lAcrocorinth Sanctuary #1983. Area Gamma. Chance find, no notebook reference. Found in scarp of robbing trench of Roman well, west of wall #65, south of tile barrier, and south of basket 3. Ca. 0.35 m below top of wall #65. 31 May 1965. | |
| Bibliography: | Klinger, 2021, Corinth XVIII.8, no. 94 | |
| Site: | Acrocorinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore Image: bw 2007 005 27 Image: digital 2017 0133 Image: digital 2017 0134 Basket: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore |
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