| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 1998 1 | |
| Title: | ROMAN TERRACOTTA ANTEFIX | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Palmette antefix attached to semicircular necking. Face decorated in relief with 13-petal palmette, central petal taller, others drooping, perimeter cut substantially for center petal and roughly edged for side petals, petals radiate from circular knobbed heart; radiating from each of the lowest petals are two smaller scrolls curling upward; below smaller petals a larger s-scroll curls downward diagonally to lower left corner; between this large S-scroll and bottom center of antefix curls a small scroll but face here undefined; no additional decoration down to bottom edge. Back rounded. Parallels: FA-198, FA-266, FA-508. | |
| Decoration: | Dark red paint on face, best preserved below heart. | |
| Material: | Coarse pinkish-tan clay with scattered medium-sized red, fine dark and sparkling inclusions, poss. pieces of unmixed red clay, fine voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Complete profile, face nearly complete, missing lower right corner, chips in left center of back, broken after juncture to neck. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.219 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | W00.18-00.19 (base) | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Chronology: | Roman, context date 3rd century | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB912 B34 P94 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 1998 020 07 Basket: NB912 B34 P94 |
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