| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 9336 | |
| Title: | CREATED BY ACCIDENT - PLEASE DELETE THIS ONE! | |
| RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | ||
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 9336 | |
| Description: | Hawksbeak type. Hollow(?) rectangular portable altar with hawksbeak crowning molding and flat top. Crowning molding: lower element(s) missing, hawksbeak (H. 0.012 upper surface), fascia (H. 0.011). | |
| Decoration: | Upper and lower surfaces of hawksbeak decorated with Doric leaf patterns. Leaves painted black and read in alternation, both horizontally and vertically, with interstices painted black. Fascia painted with pattern of alternating high black and low red squares; outlines incised. Red stripe painted at outer edge of top surface. | |
| Material: | Buff clay | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves upper part of crowning molding with part of top surface. Inner surface not preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | Moldmade | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.091; H. 0.031 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Early 6th to third quarter 5th cen BC context | |
| Area: | Museum west | |
| Context: | NB184 P114 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Rupp, Greek Altars (Bryn Mawr PhD) 1974, cat TC 11. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Museum west Basket: NB184 P114 |
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