| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2006 16 | |
| Title: | LIMESTONE EGG | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2006 | |
| Object Number: | 16 | |
| Description: | Egg-shaped stone with smoothed surface showing no signs of tooling. A hole for suspension has been bored into the very top of the egg to another hole 0.012 down the surface of the side. Similar in shape to but somewhat larger than V 231, a terracotta egg with a small hole at the bottom (Corinth XIV, p.141, no. 34, pl. 56). | |
| Material: | Hard limestone | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. Some minor chipping in the otherwise smooth exterior surface. | |
| Manufacture: | HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.065, max. Diam. 0.051 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.200 | |
| Weight: | 0.200 | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Context: | NB984 B15 P31, LOT 2006 029 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia north Image: bw 2006 018 36 Basket: NB984 B15 P31 Notebook Page: NB 984, spread 20 (pp. 30 - 31) |
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