| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 6464 | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 6464 | |
| Old Number: | MF 6050 | |
| Description: | Cyma reversa type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with cyma reversa crowning molding and flat top with shallow circular depression (one preserved - maybe a second to the right). Clay of the circular impression discolored a bright orange similar to the core (2.5YR 6/6). Interior divided by a partition running from front to back. Crowning molding: half-round (H. 0.006), cyma reversa (H. 0.028), fascia (H. 0.010). | |
| Decoration: | Lower surface of half-round striped in red. Lower surface of cyma reversa and soffit of fascia striped in red. Cyma reversa decorated with painted Lesbian leaf and dart pattern. Leaves painted black with red interstices in which points of darts are incised. Face of fascia shows part of one lozenge in red. Edge of top striped in red. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with numerous reddish brown inclusions. Fired pinker at corer. Paler slip of varying thickeness. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6; 2.5YR 6/6 (core); 7.5YR 8/2 (slip) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves part of top and front with crowning molding (nearly complete profile) and part of flat top (with edge of circular depression). Interior surface and stub of interior partition preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | Moldmade | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D. 0.002 (Of circular depression) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.105; W. 0.089; H. 0.058 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.070 (Of circular depression) | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | c. 460-420 BC by context | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB144 P177 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1936, 41-42; Hesperia 1937, 313, no. 239, figs. 43-44; Hesperia 1947, 216, 218, FN. 12; Corinth XV-2 1952, 272; Lisle, Cults of Corinth (Johns Hopkins PhD) 1955, 24, FN. 204; Hesperia 1959, 143; Rupp, Greek Altars (Bryn Mawr PhD) 1974, cat TC 32, fig. 337 (as MF 6050). | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest |
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