Corinth Object: MF 9163
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 9163
Title:   TERRACOTTA RELIEF: BANQUET TABLE
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   9163
Description:   Terracotta mouldmade figurine of banquet table with two lumps resting atop, horizontal bar joins leg below table. Incised horizontal line above table for beginning of couch. Back lt. rough with a horizontal ridge of clay in center. Similar to MF-5458 (Corinth XII, p. 37 no. 179 pl. 12) and MF-1898 (Corinth XII, p.48 no. 304 pl. 26).
Decoration:   White slip on table and food.
Material:   Fine reddish yellow clay with few small platy angular sparkling, frequent small to large tabular angular white, rare small tabular rounded black, and rare very large spherical rounded yellow inclusions and rare large tabular rounded voids
Munsell Color:   Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of wall, portion of table, and right table leg. Broken on all sides. Traces of white slip preserved. Worn surface. Pitted and burnt back.
Manufacture:   F06 U MM
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.014
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.058, W. 0.040
Period:   Hellenistic
Chronology:   3 q. of 3rd c. B.C stylistically (Corinth XII, no. 304) or 220-178 B.C. based on coin of Philip V in Well IV.
Area:   South Stoa
Context:   NB139 P127
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa
Basket: NB139 P127
Notebook Page: NB 139, spread 84 (pp. 126 - 127)