| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2014 13 | |
| Title: | BRONZE GOAT BELL | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2014 | |
| Object Number: | 13 | |
| Description: | Goat bell, slightly trapezoidal or rectangular, with flat resting surface and sides widening toward top with two corners, flaring. Thin clapper with flat rounded end, square shaped crown, circular in section, attached by three wires to a leather yoke to which a flat wood peg is attached on one side. Wires closed by twisting ends together. Leather yoke with two large holes at ends, smaller holes at middle, and even smaller holes for wire attachments. Wood peg with one end trimmed and double-looped wire at same end. | |
| Decoration: | Diagonally crossing incised pattern on both sides. | |
| Material: | Bronze, leather, wood, and wire. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete; one face of bell dented, incised lines on both faces but not fully preserved, leather strap bent, broken at one end. Wooden peg broken at one end. Clapper non-moving; leather, wood, and wire movable. | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | based on context | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context: | Temple E, Southeast, context 66 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E, Southeast Image: digital 2015 3331 Image: digital 2015 3332 Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 66 |
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