| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | SF 1972 3h | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA SPHINX: LEFT WING | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | SF | |
| Year: | 1972 | |
| Object Number: | 3 | |
| Object Suffix: | h | |
| Description: | Left wing, part that projects freely from body. Tip of one covert feather projects in relief from longer flight feathers. Parts of 4 flight feathers stepped in relief from one another. Start 5th at lower break. Tips scalloped. Feathers narrow at base, widening toward tip. Back smoothed. Frgt. thin at tip widening greatly toward wing base. At lt. break part of hole cut from back surface D00.01 ca. horizontally through wing. Thin surface slip with inclusions showing on surface. | |
| Decoration: | Covert: bit of reserved, black borders. Flight: alternating red, black with resreved, black bands. Outer edge black on 1 preserved tip (feather also black). Back purple-red between 2.5YR-10R 4/4. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., front, back faces, wing tip. Paint worn. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.018-00.052 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.172 W00.170 | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB564 B148 P186 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple Hill Images (4) Basket: NB564 B148 P186 |
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