Corinth Object: SF 1972 3g
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   SF 1972 3g
Title:   TERRACOTTA SPHINX: WING
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   SF
Year:   1972
Object Number:   3
Object Suffix:   g
Description:   Left wing with parts of 4 feathers of which 2 tips preserved. Feathers stepped, edge scalloped, back roughly smoothed, flaring slightly at lower break which has a rounded outline. Poss. give line of back. Frgt. thickens abruptly from edge to inner break. At inner break half of hole running through thickness of wing 00.06-00.07 in from tip.
Decoration:   1 black, 1 red feather. Outer edge of black one is black, red is red, back red-brown.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving two faces, outer edge, broken above, below, inside edge.
Dimensions Actual:   T00.023-00.045
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.096 W00.072
Area:   Temple Hill
Context:   NB564 B139 P183
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Temple Hill
Images (5)
Basket: NB564 B139 P183