| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | SF 1972 3a | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA SPHINX: STEPHANE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | SF | |
| Year: | 1972 | |
| Object Number: | 3 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Description: | From proper rt. side of head, bit of head below stephane, stephane staight with scalloped edge (T00.009-00.015), interior face sloping thickening toward base and crown of head. Largely worked in coarse clay, fine slip T00.002-00.005. | |
| Decoration: | Head: dilute brown paint, reserved band. Stephane: lotus-palmette chain on reserved ground. 11-petal palmette with slender drooping petals over simple spiral. Heart red, rest black. Lotus black with red bud. Red (between 10R-2.5YR 4/6) on upper edge, traces on inner face of stephane. Surface matt. | |
| Material: | Core: dense amount coarse (2-3 mm) black inclusions, fine surface layer, fired buff throughout with slight pink tinge. | |
| Munsell Color: | Ca. 10YR 7.5/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving top edge. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.042 (stephane) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.079 W00.153 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Early third quarter | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB564 B114 P166 | |
| NB570 B174 P27 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple Hill Images (4) Basket: NB564 B114 P166 Basket: NB570 B174 P27 Notebook Pages (5) |
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