| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 6430 | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 6430 | |
| Description: | Cyma recta ovolo type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with continuous base-crowning molding sequence (composed of a cyma recta decorated with a two-tier Lesbian leaf pattern in relief), and a flat top. Base molding: fascia (H. 0.013-0.014), cyma recta (H. 0.040). Crowning molding: ovolo (H. 0.011), fascia (H. 0.010). | |
| Decoration: | Red stripe painted around bottom of face of lower fascia. Ridges of leaves and edges of tongues striped in red and interstices painted black. Red stripe at top of face of upper fascia and around edge of top. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with numerous reddish brown inclusions. Paler, moderately thick slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 8/4; 10YR 8/2 (slip) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining fragments preserve a front corner, with bottom edge, parts of two sides with continuous base to crowning molding (complete), and part of top. Interior surface preserved. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | p.L. 0.107; p.W. 0.046; a.H. 0.074 | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB162 P80 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 1947, 220, p. 53-3; Corinth XII 1952, 126, 130, no. 887, pl. 65; Corinth XV.2 1952, 272-3; Lisle, Cults of Corinth, 24, FN 204; Hesperia 1963, 272; Rupp, Greek Altars, cat. TC 39, Fig. 345. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum south central Image: bw 5066 Notebook Page: NB 162, spread 49 (pp. 80 - 81) |
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