Corinth Object: MF 1996 32 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 1996 32 | | Title: | | STONE MOLD FOR MINIATURE COUCH | | Category Code: | | MF | | Year: | | 1996 | | Object Number: | | 32 | | Description: | | Thick block of stone with surfaces smoothly finished; impressions shallowly cut on both preserved surfaces. On top: 2 impressions of bird-headed fulcra for a tiny couch, placed one above other with heads out. Each consists of the body, neck and head of a bird, with head and beak pulled tightly down against neck, a few incised feathers on neck, double outline around body and shoulder; body ends in a wheel or rosette with 8 rays, between which are dots; short tang projects from wheel, continuing line of body, groundline below. On side, impression of couch leg and possible edge of couch; leg swells in thickness toward middle, tapering at either end, with 3 decorative reels at top, 3 near tip, tiny reel above narrow base of leg; thin base line. Top of 2nd leg at lower break. | | Material: | | Hard gray schist with reddish veins. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single fragment preserving part of one face and one side, broken remaining surfaces. | | Dimensions Actual: | | L00.031 (fulcrum) | | Dimensions Preserved: | | L00.066 W00.061 T00.021 L00.043 (leg) | | Period: | | Roman | | Chronology: | | Roman | | Area: | | Panaghia Villa | | Context: | | NB892 B8 P13 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Panaghia Villa
Basket: NB892 B8 P13
Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 11 (pp. 12 - 13)
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