| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 6463 | |
| Title: | RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PORTABLE ALTAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 6463 | |
| Old Number: | MF 6049 | |
| Description: | Hollow rectangular portable altar with plain (left) and roughly vertically grooved (right) sides. Crude crowning molding or lip projects 0.006 over right side. Flat top preserves trace of rail at left edge and slight burning marks. | |
| Material: | Buff clay with dark brown and reddish brown inclusions. Core fired pinker. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4; 5YR 7/6 (core) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves parts of two sides and of top, with bottom edge and corner. Interior surface preserved. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | p.L. 0.123; p.W. 0.094; a.H. 0.073 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | No later than c. 420 BC | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB144 P177 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1936, 41-42; Hesperia 1937, 314, no. 242, fig 46; Hesperia 1947, 216; Lisle, Cults of Corinth, 24, FN 204; Rupp, Greek Altar, cat. TC 35, fig. 339 (as MF 6049). | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest |
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