| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | SF 1974 2 | |
| Title: | RIGHT WING OF SPHINX | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | SF | |
| Year: | 1974 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Related Objects: | SF XXXX 006 | |
| Description: | Tip of feather from right sphinx wing, edge of second. Feathers stepped with deep V-shaped channel setting off flat framing band from flat face of feather proper. Outer edge flat, rounded in back to flat smoothed back. Thick layer of fine clay 00.007-00.011 on front, outer faces, 00.003 on back; layer fine clay at core. From same or similar sphinx as SF XXXX 006. | |
| Decoration: | Heart of feather red-brown, ca. 10R 4/6-2.5YR 3.5/6, surrounded by reserved band with yellow lustrous caste, 1OYR 7/5. Black framing band. Outer edge, back plain. | |
| Mythology: | Sphinx | |
| Material: | Core clay with dense amount fine sand-like inclusions, few coarser black, fired gray-buff. Fine surface layer buff-yellow. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface 2.5Y 7/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken two edges. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.030-00.0325 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W00.063 L00.053 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB610 P25 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 2000 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple Hill Image: bw 1985 008 07a Image: bw 1999 019 22 Image: slide 1982 034 09 Basket: NB610 P25 Notebook Page: NB 610, spread 18 (p. 26) |
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