| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 8954 | |
| Title: | HOLLOW RECTANGULAR PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 8954 | |
| Description: | Hollow rectangular portable altar with flat side panels (bearing painted decoration) and crowning moulding. Crowning moulding: half-round (?), upper element(s) missing. | |
| Decoration: | Swan siren type. Corinthian altar painter. Red stripe painted across bottom of side panels. On left panel swan with raised wing(s) faces right. Wing tips, legs, and tail missing. Body painted black with red beak. Detail incised, and white of eye reserved. On right panel siren (missing head) with raised wing(s) faces right. Body generally black with leading feathers of wing in red. Incisded detail. Half-round of moulding painted red. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with numerous reddish brown inclusions. Paler, thin slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6, Slip: 7.5YR 8/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Many joining fragments preserve a front corner, with bottom edge, much of two adjacent side panels with painted decoration, and lower most part of crowning moulding (no complete profile). Interior surface preserved. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. side panel 0.084 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.097, W. 0.089, H. 0.087 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Images (4) Notebook Page: NB 194, spread 17 (pp. 25 - 26) |
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