| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | SF 1974 5a | |
| Title: | PLAQUE ? | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | SF | |
| Year: | 1974 | |
| Object Number: | 5 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | SF 1974 005B | |
| Description: | Two finished surfaces, one decorated, the other plain, are joined by a strut 00.013m. Thick, leaving an airspace of ca. 1cm. between them. The plain face is roughly flat, its surface wet-smoothed with inclusions apparent. | |
| Decoration: | A + B: on the one face is painted what resembles the face of an owl. Parts of two large, closely-set circular eyes, drawn in black and fringed with black lashes. Solid black pupil also fringed. Face painted a dull light reddish brown 5YR 6.5/4. Two eyebrows ? drawn in short horizontal strokes of black descend to form a triangle. The face appears to be outlined by a broad groove painted black, above which tips of poss. vertical stripes in red and reserved colours, outlined in black. Groove on A flattened into a sloping surface, with stripes above oblique; beneath the band is a small black triangle. Groove on B slightly curved, suggesting that whole was circular. For clay cf. SF-1972-14A-C. | |
| Material: | Moderate amount of fine coarser red and black mudstone, clay fired buff at surface, pink at core, fine thin surface slip without inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 (slip) 6.5YR 7/6 (pink core) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of two faces; broken all edges. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.037 (max) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.060 W00.028 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | ? | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB610 B94 P1 | |
| NB610 B94 P126 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 2000 P436 N015 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Bookidis, Hesperia 69:4, 2000 Monument: Temple Hill Image: bw 1985 008 18a Basket: NB610 B94 P1 Basket: NB610 B94 P126 Notebook Page: NB 610, spread 68 (p. 126) |
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