Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FA 19 | |
Title: | ARCHAIC PALMETTE ANTEFIX | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FA | |
Object Number: | 19 | |
Description: | Palmette antefix worked in one with pentagonal cover tile, above which it projects. Face decorated in relief with 7-petal palmette; 3 central petals straight, lower ones drooping somewhat with round tips; edge of antefix scalloped to reflect petals. Semicircular heart, below which 2 tendrils curve up and down - outer ends missing; tendrils tied by cross-bar, below which an upside down lotus; in center of lotus a drop-shaped heart and 3 curling petals; large stud flanking cross-bar to either side. | |
Decoration: | All surfaces slipped. Petals painted red-black alternating from central black petal, red heart, cross-bar and studs, black tendrils and lotus petals, red lotus heart. Small palmette red and black. Red on outer edge of antefix. | |
Material: | Light pinkish-buff coarse clay fired to darker pink at core, with numerous fine to coarser (to 3 mm.) black, some red mudstone inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Pinker than 10YR 7.5/4 to 7.5YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving most of face, broken at juncture to cover tile in back; broken lower edge, and corners, right half of palmette; glaze worn. | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. (just above corner) 0.036 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.210 | |
Dimensions Restored: | W. (throught palmette) 0.155 | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance unknown | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 p. 49; Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 61; Cited Winter Archterr | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994 Monument: Early Excavations |