| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 330 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LIONHEAD SPOUT | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 330 | |
| Old Number: | MF-00144 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Lionhead spout, broken at juncture to sima plaque; top of head low with three rows of small mane locks on proper lt. side of head, four rows to right, locks scored; forehead has broad concave furrow down center and hollows above either brow; brow ridge plastic, shallowset eye just below brow with deeply incised ring outlining eye, outline around pupil. | |
| Decoration: | Red-brown paint over mane, on eyebrows, circling eyes, and on pupil. | |
| Material: | Fine light red clay with rare small white and fine black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., top of head with both eyes, forehead and mane. Paint well preserved. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.16 W00.148 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | ? Early Roman ? | |
| Area: | Forum east | |
| Context: | NB78 P272 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI P095 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum east Image: bw 1998 003 09 Basket: NB78 P272 Notebook Page: NB 75, spread 92 (pp. 372 - 373) |
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