| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14496 | |
| Title: | BOAT | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14496 | |
| Description: | War galley with shallow rounded hull and sloping sides, preserving bow which extends slightly upward to indicate a projecting stem. Pointed flattened ram projects outward and down from hull. Handmade. For a better example see KT-52-5 (Corinth XV, p. 197, no. 5, late 6th-early 5th c.); Pentekouphi plaque F621, Basch 1987, Le muse imaginaire de la marine antique, Athens, pp. 235-236, fig. 492, first half 6th c. | |
| Decoration: | Traces of white slip and red paint over all. | |
| Material: | Fine clay, tiny red inclusions, voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt. of front half of boat to bow. | |
| Manufacture: | HM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.012; L. 0.053; W. 0.026 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Date of context: Middle Roman | |
| Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
| Context: | NB280 B2 P186, LOT 2154 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Klinger, 2021, Corinth XVIII.8, no. 75 | |
| Site: | Acrocorinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore Images (5) |
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