Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 10713 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: BIRD | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 10713 | |
Description: | Terracotta solid handmade perching dove with twisted pinched beak, small head tilted down, long thin neck, short wide feet, wide round concave body, hollow underneath, narrowing toward low round flat tail. Similar to KT41-17 and KT 41-43 (Corinth XV.2 Class XXVII Late Group p. 186 no. 14 pl. 42). | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare fine sparkling and few fein tabular angular white inclusions and few fine platy angular voids | |
Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Single piece missing lt leg and part of lt shoulder. | |
Manufacture: | F17 U HM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.031, L. 0.055, Th. 0.006 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.020 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | 5th to mid 4th c. B.C. stylistically (Corinth Class XXVII Late group no.14 from Deposit 6 TC Factory dates middle 4th c. B.C. but little difference) | |
Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
Context: | NB232 B2 P143 | |
NB232 B4 P146, LOT 0864 | ||
LOT 0864 | ||
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 002 24 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 Basket: NB232 B4 P146 Notebook Page: NB 232, spread 76 (pp. 142 - 143) |