| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 446 | |
| Title: | PENTAGONAL ANTEFIX ON CORINTHIAN COVER TILE, 6TH CENTURY BCE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Object Number: | 446 | |
| Description: | Pentagonal antefix with slightly projecting bottom fascia, 0.022 m. high. Top edge of antefix face projects ca. 0.045 m. above calypter. Projection is 0.023 m. wide. Front face of antefix carries design of antithetic tendrils, painted black, which rise from plain bottom fascia, are gathered at center of antefix by horizontal bar, rise over and around eye (free-floating in field) down and outward, spiralling upward around second eye. Five-petal palmette above central horizontal bar, petals red, black, red. Single petal filler in field between tendril and terminal spiral. No decorative frame for field. | |
| Material: | Gritty buff Corinthian clay, yellowish buff slip, red and black paint. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Whole front face, chipped with most of top palmette missing, cover tile broken off almost completely, mended from two frgts. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. 0.192 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | H. proper right side of tile 0.056 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 6th c. B.C.; Dated by Le Roi, F.D., II, p. 37, 590-560 B.C. | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB219 B1 P70 | |
| NB210 P189 | ||
| Findspot Description: | FIB 211 p. 31 no. 52 | |
| Bibliography: | Robinson, Hesperia 1962, p. 114, pl. 41e; Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 53; ΣΤΗΛΗ, Kontoleon Festschrift; Cited Winter Archterr | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Robinson, Hesperia 31:2, 1962 Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994 Monument: Forum southwest Image: slide 1960 013 05 Basket: NB210 P189 Basket: NB219 B1 P70 Notebook Page: NB 210, spread 99 (pp. 188 - 189) Notebook Page: NB 211, spread 20 (pp. 30 - 31) |
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