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 |