Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 8586 | |
Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 8586 | |
Description: | Cyma reversa type. Hollow rectangular portable altar with panel(s) bearing figural decoration in relief and cyma reversa crowning molding. Cyma reversa decorated with Lesbian leaf and dart pattern in relief. Garbled by mid-molding. Crowning molding: cyma reversa (H. 0.022-0.024), upper element(s) missing. | |
Decoration: | Horse and rider type. Panel bears horse galloping to left in relief. Only head and upper forelegs survive and they are garbled by mis-molding. Probably from same mold as MF 8587, MF 8774, MF 1977-44. | |
Material: | Buff clay with reddish brown inclusions. Fired pinker at core. | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 8/4 (surface), 5YR 8/4 (core) | |
Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves portion of the upper part of a side, with small area of panel with figural decoration in relief and crowning molding (no complete profile). Interior surface preserved. | |
Manufacture: | Moldmade | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.029 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.054; H. 0.082 | |
Area: | Tile Works | |
Context: | NB185 P34 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 1947, 218, pl. 52-2; Corinth XV-2 1952, 272; Lisle, Cults of Corinth (Johns Hopkins PhD) 1955, 24, FN. 204; Rupp, Greek Altars (Bryn Mawr PhD) 1974, cat TC 20, fig. 319. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5471 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 20 (pp. 33 - 34) |