| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FT 2011 1 | |
| Title: | HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA EAVES TILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FT | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Eaves tile. | |
| Decoration: | Decorated in ligh-on-dark style: soffit, lotus-palmette chain, p. W. 0.079, composed of eleven-petal palmettes and five-leaf lotus; face, swastika meander and checkerboard. Red paint on the palmette heart, along the edge of the calyx, and outlining the checkerboard. Cf. FT-207 (Corinth XVIII.3, p. 468, no. 74). | |
| Material: | Coarse pale yellow clay with common large to very large mudstone inclusions and voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt preserves small part of three sides of tile, broken on rest, paint on two sides. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.053 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.107, W. 0.087 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Based on parallel. | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, context 1083, LOT 2011 035 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater |
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