Corinth Object: A 849
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   A 849
Title:   RELIEF WITH BOUKRANION
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   A
Object Number:   849
Old Number:   S-1980 (lapsed)
Description:   Relief with upper edge roughly picked. Decorated in relief with a stylized boukranion set 00.028 below upper edge; this band roughly worked. Boukranion consists of a stylized ruff of hair above forehead with curving horizontal incised liens for hairs, below which a row of beads. Head and muzzle flat with bulging eye, socket of eye hollowed out and roughly picked; muzzle tapers toward nose.
Material:   Fine-crystal white marble.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper edge, right 3/4 of head to base of right horn; missing tip of muzzle. Surface stained black.
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.23 W00.156
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   Early Roman
Area:   Forum southeast
Context:   NB147 P35
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southeast
Basket: NB147 P35