| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2006 8 | |
| Title: | MINIATURE TERRACOTTA MIRROR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2006 | |
| Object Number: | 8 | |
| Description: | Mirror with thin irregular ovoid-shaped disk pinched flat on edges, slightly thicker, rectangular, vertical handle with pinched end. | |
| Decoration: | Three horizontal stripes of red paint on handle. Similar to MF-4019. | |
| Material: | Fine yellow clay with few small angular tabular gray, black and red, few fine rounded tabular and spherical white lime, and rare fine sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 10YR 8/6 (yellow), Paint: 10R 4/6 (red) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Almost complete except for chips on one side of disk. | |
| Manufacture: | HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. of disk 0.034, W. of handle 0.009, Th. 0.006 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.055 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 6th c. B.C. to 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2, pp. 211-212). | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Context: | NB977 B62 P147 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia north Image: bw 2006 018 22 Basket: NB977 B62 P147 Notebook Page: NB 977, spread 79 (pp. 147 - 148) |
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