| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 422 | |
| Title: | SCALLOPED PENTAGONAL ANTEFIX FOR EAVES TILE DARK-ON-LIGHT STYLE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Object Number: | 422 | |
| Description: | Back broken, showing trace of small pentagonal kalypter; side vertical, then top scalloped to reflect palmette leaves. Front face flat, moulded, giving impression that front design was stamped into face. | |
| Decoration: | Decoration of front face: left tendril starts from center, near horizontal, rises to outside curving counter-clockwise. Small palmette with small unbending petals. Palmette probably was three-leafed, not central motif. Central motif missing. Tendril painted black, heart of palmette red, petals alternating red, black, red. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay, slip slightly lighter, rough at break, mudstone particles up to 0.004 m. long. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slip: 10YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Front left third of antefix face, single frgt. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.059, W. 0.057 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Before last quarter 6th c. | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P158 | |
| NB189 P304 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Cited Winter Archterr; Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 52. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994 Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5555 Image: bw 8648 Basket: NB185 P158 Basket: NB189 P304 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 82 (pp. 157 - 158) Notebook Page: NB 189, spread 58 (pp. 304 - 305) |
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