| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2015 61 | |
| Title: | FLYING DOVE FIGURINE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2015 | |
| Object Number: | 61 | |
| Description: | Flying bird figurine with spread wings and tail; no feet (roughly smoothed undersurface). Broad shoulders with pointed wing tips, wide flaring tail tapering towards body. Peaked mound in center of body pierced through laterally. Somewhat similar to KT-42-3 but without suspension hole. | |
| Decoration: | White paint all over top of body. Red painted diagonal stripes on wings; two red painted triangles on tail. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with rare small subrounded spherical black inclusions and rare small voids | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Intact except missing head. | |
| Weight Description: | 0.005 | |
| Weight: | 0.005 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | date based on context | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | South Stoa, context 242, LOT 2015 079 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: digital 2015 3823 Image: digital 2015 3824 Image: digital 2015 3825 Basket: South Stoa, context 242 |
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