| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 42 | |
| Title: | RELIEF: GRIFFIN TAIL TO RT. | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 42 | |
| Related Objects: | T-XXXX-0043 | |
| Description: | Relief slab, sawn smoothly in back; tooling unclear on upper edge. In relief, part of 2 covert and 6 primary feathers from one wing of a griffin facing rt. Wing tips schematically worked in low relief, but top edge of body rises to a high relief format. Feathers smoothed of all tooling. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled, highly micaceous marble with horizontal veins. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., front, back and upper edge; broken remaining edges; some chips from edge of wing; heavily weathered, yellowed. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.045-00.48 (ground) H00.06 (relief at break) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.31 W00.21 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, Shear Excavations, probably 1925-1926 | |
| Bibliography: | Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 5D | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004 Monument: Theater |
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