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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 8984 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA MIRROR | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 8984 | | Description: | | Terracotta handmade solid mirror with a ridge around outside edge and incised concentric ring 0.002 from edge. Slightly concave. Flat back. Similar to KT53-2 and KT53-27 (Corinth XV.2, p.211-212, Class XXXIV no. 5 and 3, pl. 46). | | Decoration: | | Yellow paint in front. | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare medium tabular rounded gray, rare small platy angular white, and few fine sparkling inclusions and few small platy angular voids | | Munsell Color: | | Clay: 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Paint: 10R 7/8 (yellow) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single piece preserving one-third of mirror. Paint preserved throughout piece. | | Manufacture: | | HM | | Dimensions Actual: | | Th. 0.005 | | Dimensions Restored: | | Diam. of shield 0.030 | | Period: | | Classical | | Chronology: | | 5th to 4th c. BC stylistically (PQ, Class XXXIV) or 178-168 B.C. based on coin of Perseus in Well XVIII | | Area: | | South Stoa | | Context: | | NB195 P163 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: South Stoa
Basket: NB195 P163
Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 86 (pp. 163A - 162)
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