Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FA 204 | |
Title: | EARLY ARCHAIC ANTEFIX | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FA | |
Object Number: | 204 | |
Description: | Buff Corinthian clay with inclusions, buff slip. Black galze, red paint. Low, pentagonal antefix for Corinthian cover tile. Face decorated in low relief with two volutes, spreading out from center, to lower corners, spiraling up and inward. At apex of antefix, a small 3-petalled palmette over a rounded heart. Raised border around edge painted black. Volutes black; palmete: outer two petals red, central one broken away, heart black. * Typed from old inventory card. | |
Material: | Clay: numerous fine to coarse (to 4 mm.) black, red inclusions; thin slip on top, sides, front-all relief work on face done in fine clay. | |
Munsell Color: | Between 10YR 8/3 and 2.5Y 8/3 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment broken at back, right lower corner chipped. Surface worn. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. at ends 0.041 m. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | P.L. 0.177, max. H. 0.076 | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB123 P22 | |
Findspot Description: | ? Potters' Quarter. Found near NW angle of City Wall. Trench N 4, near surface. April 28, 1931. | |
Bibliography: | Corinth, XV. ii. p. 281 no. 61. 7th cent. B.C. ; Roebuck, Hesperia, 1990, p. 51; ΣΤΗΛΗ, Kontoleon Festschrift, 1978, p. 347; Cited Winter Archterr | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publications (4) Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 5526 Basket: NB123 P22 Notebook Page: NB 123, spread 16 (pp. 21 - 22) |