| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 9422a | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 9422 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Old Number: | MF 9422A, MF 9422B | |
| Description: | Hawksbeak type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with plain back, flat side panels with painted decoration, hawksbeak crowning moulding, and flat top. Interior partition with saw-tooth bottom edge runs from front to back at center. Crowning moulding: Half-round (H. 0.006), Hawksbeak (H. 0.030), fascia (H. 0.016). | |
| Decoration: | Running figures Dionysos dog type. On left panel nude male strides briskly to right with proper left arm swung ahead and black pitcher in right hand. Flesh is painted red and hair black, with some incised detail. On front panel a draped male (Dionysos?) reclines on left proper elbow with legs extended to left and right proper hand raised with a ray-based skyphos. Flesh is red and drapery and cup are black. A black basket hangs by a red cord with tassles to the left. Moderate use of incision for detail. On right panel the head of a dog (?) survives at upper left, facing left, in black with detail incised. Half-round painted with alternating red and black diagonal stripes. Doric leaf patterns painted on upper and lower surfaces of hawksbeak. Leaves are red and black in alternation, both horizontally and vertically, with incised ridges and black meandor on face with alternating red and black squares, incised with crosses, at centers. Red stripe around edge of top. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with numerous dark gray and reddish brown inclusions, fired pinker inside. Thin slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4, Inside: 5YR 7/6 | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining fragments preserve most of altar, save lower part of right side, lower right front and lower right rear corners, parts of end mouldings, and two areas of back. Much loss of paint. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. 0.118, H. 0.136 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.259 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Late fifth century B.C., context ? | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 1950, 370-374, figs 1-3, pl110ac; Corinth XV-2 1952, 273, fn28; Lisle, Cults of Corinth(John Hopkins PHD) 1955, 24, fn204; Nilsson, Festschrift fur B. Schweitzer 1955, 220; Rupp, Greek Altars (Bryn Mawr PHD) 1974, cat tc 8, figs 298-301; H | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952 Publication: Lisle, , The cults of Corinth1955 |