| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1954A | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 1954 | |
| Object Suffix: | A | |
| Related Objects: | MF 1954B | |
| Description: | Hawskbeak type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with flat side panels, hawksbeak crowning molding, and flat top. Crowning molding: half-round (H. 0.005-0.006), hawksbeak (H. 0.032), fascia (H. 0.010). | |
| Decoration: | Right panel painted in red with opposed triangle motif (?). Half-round painted red. Doric leaf patterns painted on upper and lower surfaces of hawksbeak. Leaves black and red in alternation, both horizontally and vertically, with black interstices. Outlines of hawksbeak decoration roughly incised. Face of fascia striped with black at bottom and red at top. Red stripe around edge of top. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with numerous dark grey inclusions. Paler, thin slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4; 10 YR 8/3 (slip) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves upper front corner with portions of two side panels, crowning molding (complete), and flat top. Interior surface reserved. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | p.L. 0.074; p.W. 0.066; p.H. 0.076 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Late 6th cen BC | |
| Area: | Temple E | |
| Context: | NB129 P77 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth I-2, 168-169; Hesperia 1947, 219, pl. 52-3; Corinth XII, 126, 130, no. 883, fig. 21, pl. 65; Corinth XV-2, 273, FN. 28; Lisle, Cults of Corinth, 24, FN. 204; Rupp, Greek Altars, cat. TC 5, figs. 289-290. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E Image: bw 5473 Image: digital 2019 0060 Basket: NB129 P77 |
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