Corinth Object: MF 14504
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 14504
Title:   QUINCE, LARGE
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   14504
Description:   Model of large round fruit, probably a quince, divided vertically into at least four round sections by slight depressions that meet at indented center at the bottom, this marking the blossom end. Handmade. Hollow.
Material:   Fine clay, traces of burning inside, outside, and at break.
Munsell Color:   10YR 6/3
Condition:   Fragment. Single fragment preserving bottom and part of lower body; blackened on exterior and part of break, 1/5 preserved.
Manufacture:   Handmade
Dimensions Preserved:   Max. p.dim. 0.055; Th. of body 0.005
Period:   No precise date (NPD)
Chronology:   Pottery mid 4th B.C., deposited early 3rd century B.C. or later
Area:   Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Context:   NB250, LOT 1993
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Klinger, 2021, Corinth XVIII.8, no. 102
Site:   Acrocorinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Image: digital 2015 1165
Basket: NB250