| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1074 | |
| Title: | ROMAN PAINTED WALL PLASTER | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Object Number: | 1074 | |
| Description: | Wall plaster. | |
| Decoration: | Painted on dark yellow background, bird, about 0.12-0.14 m. long (if complete), facing lt. with wings folded. No background architecture of vegitation. Bird possibly stands on twig executed in white strokes. Bird is executed in dark mauve, light mauve and white. Breast is light mauve, shadowed along bottom of belly by single dark mauve line. Fee, back and wings, top of tail dark mauve. Pale mauve for middle of tail; bottom of tail or edge of feathers executed in white. Three white parallel lines on wing defining feathers. Execution is quick and careless; brush strokes clearly visible with brush stroke 'frayed' at ends of tail and wing. | |
| Material: | Plaster with dense aggragate of tiny black and yellow inclusions, fewer larger gray and yellow pebbles. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., brokenall sides and back. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | MPDim00.115 T00.022 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | South Basilica | |
| Context: | NB146 P109 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Basilica Image: bw 2002 045 34 Basket: NB146 P109 Notebook Page: NB 146, spread 59 (pp. 109 - 110) |
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