| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1954B | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 1954 | |
| Object Suffix: | B | |
| Related Objects: | MF 1954a | |
| Description: | Hawksbeak type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with plain back, flat side panels on other side(s), hawskbeak crowning molding, and flat top. Crowning molding: half-round (H. 0.006), hawskbeak (H. 0.028), fascia? (H. 0.011). | |
| Decoration: | Half-round painted red. Upper and lower surfaces of hawksbeak painted in Doric leaf patterns. Leaves red and black in alternation, both horizontally and vertically, with black iterstices. Leaves on upper surface lap onto soffit of fascia (?). Fascia (?) soffit painted black. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with numerous dark grey inclusions. Paler, thin slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4; 10YR 8/3 (slip) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves upper right part of right rear corner, with small portion of right side panel and its crowning molding (incomplete), part of back, and part of top. Interior surface preserved. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | p.L. 0.068; p.W. 0.059; p.H. 0.058 | |
| 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. 52-4; 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 6, figs. 291. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E Image: bw 5473 Basket: NB129 P77 |
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