Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | SF 1972 3g | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA SPHINX: WING | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | SF | |
Year: | 1972 | |
Object Number: | 3 | |
Object Suffix: | g | |
Description: | Left wing with parts of 4 feathers of which 2 tips preserved. Feathers stepped, edge scalloped, back roughly smoothed, flaring slightly at lower break which has a rounded outline. Poss. give line of back. Frgt. thickens abruptly from edge to inner break. At inner break half of hole running through thickness of wing 00.06-00.07 in from tip. | |
Decoration: | 1 black, 1 red feather. Outer edge of black one is black, red is red, back red-brown. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving two faces, outer edge, broken above, below, inside edge. | |
Dimensions Actual: | T00.023-00.045 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.096 W00.072 | |
Area: | Temple Hill | |
Context: | NB564 B139 P183 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Temple Hill Images (5) Basket: NB564 B139 P183 |