| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1999 12 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA SNAKE-HELMET STELE FIGURINE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 12 | |
| Description: | Upper portion of stele, roughly flat on back, with snake and helmet in low relief on front; snake reaches up to plain moulding of stele, topped by a Corinthian helmet with plume; see Corinth XII, n. 183-184, 365-374, but esp. n. 366 - 367. | |
| Decoration: | White paint on front surface, traces of red paint on plume | |
| Attributes: | Snake, helmet | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow fabric with few medium to very large spherical angular and platy sub-rounded black and red, and rare fine sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Preserving upper half of stele, surface and top worn, paint preserved on front | |
| Manufacture: | F19 MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.026 T00.007-00.011 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.066 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Late 4th/ early 3rd c. B.C.; context at least 3rd c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB915 B80 P117 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Image: bw 1999 044 06a Basket: NB915 B80 P117 Notebook Page: NB 915, spread 63 (pp. 116 - 117) |
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