| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 8809 | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 8809 | |
| Description: | Hollow rectangular portable altar with figural decoration on side panel(s). | |
| Decoration: | Seated figures type. Two seated figures facing left in relief. Only two folds of drapery outlined in black and the edge of a stool outlined in black survive of the left figure. Trunk and legs of right figure survive, draped in a solid black garmet. \upper body may twist frontally with upraised proper right arm (painted red), may be holding black staff. Stool outlined in red. Background is left in reserve. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with numerous reddish brown inclusions. Fired pinker at core. Moderately thick fine slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4 (surface), 5YR 7/6 (core) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining fragments preserving the central part of a side panel decorated in relief. Interior surface preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | Moldmade | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.077; H. 0.056; Th. 0.02 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Forum South Central, surface find | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 1950, p. 374, pl. 110D left; Lisle, Cults of Corinth (Johns Hopkins PhD) 1955, p. 24, Fn. 204. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 9 (pp. 9 - 10) |
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