| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 9271 | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 9271 | |
| Related Objects: | MF 9270 | |
| Description: | Dentils type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with side panels decorated in relief, crowning molding with dentils, and rectangular depression with rounded corners on top. Top surface decorated with sinuous line and dots in relief. Depression located 0.008 from right edge of top. Crowning molding: fascia (H. 0.004), dentil course (H. 0.006), fascia (H. 0.007). | |
| Decoration: | Standing figures type. On left panel, frontal standing figure in relief, with staff(?) in proper left hand and proper right arm raised. On right panel, standing figure in relief, walking to right(?). Figures indistinct, missing feet. Traces of very thin white slip on altar generally. | |
| Material: | Buff clay, fired darker at core | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 8/3 (surface), 5YR 7/6 (core) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves corner with parts of two side panels (both with relief decoration), crowning molding (complete profile), and part of top with corner of rounded depression. Interior surface preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | Moldmade | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.040; W. 0.040; H. 0.062 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Hellenistic to Early Roman context | |
| Area: | Southeast Building | |
| Context: | NB191 P160 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Southeast Building Basket: NB191 P160 |
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