Corinth Object: FT 2011 1 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | FT 2011 1 | Title: | | HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA EAVES TILE | Category: | | Architecture | Category Code: | | FT | Year: | | 2011 | Object Number: | | 1 | Description: | | Eaves tile. | Decoration: | | Decorated in ligh-on-dark style: soffit, lotus-palmette chain, p. W. 0.079, composed of eleven-petal palmettes and five-leaf lotus; face, swastika meander and checkerboard. Red paint on the palmette heart, along the edge of the calyx, and outlining the checkerboard. Cf. FT-207 (Corinth XVIII.3, p. 468, no. 74). | Material: | | Coarse pale yellow clay with common large to very large mudstone inclusions and voids. | Munsell Color: | | 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow) | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt preserves small part of three sides of tile, broken on rest, paint on two sides. | Manufacture: | | MM | Dimensions Actual: | | Th. 0.053 | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.107, W. 0.087 | Period: | | Hellenistic | Chronology: | | Based on parallel. | Area: | | Theater | Context: | | Theater, context 1083, LOT 2011 035 | Provenance: | | Corinth | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Monument: Theater
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