404 MARIO IOZZO 109. Stand fragment Fig. 6, P1. 80 century; from this moment on, this pr<strong>of</strong>ile is used in C-37-2325. H. 0.104, W. 0.167, rest. D. 0.22, Th. 0.042. Impure, white clay (2.5Y 8/2) with predominantly gray inclusions; thick layer <strong>of</strong> very pale brown slip (1OYR 8/4) confined to the interior <strong>at</strong> the bottom <strong>of</strong> the bowl. <strong>The</strong> top <strong>of</strong> the stand with a piece <strong>of</strong> the bowl is preserved for a small part <strong>of</strong> the original circumference; widely chipped surface. Hollow, cylindrical stand, joined to the bowl by a hawksbeak molding which is bordered below by a brown ridge lying between two deep grooves. A Doric cym<strong>at</strong>ion is painted on the underside <strong>of</strong> the beak: a series <strong>of</strong> wide leaves is silhouetted with a slightly diluted black on the light background <strong>of</strong> the clay. <strong>The</strong> leaves have altern<strong>at</strong>ely red and brown inner parts with thin stripes reserved <strong>at</strong> the centers. On the upper part in the limited space available are painted with the reserved' technique the ends <strong>of</strong> wide leaves identical to those below and placed so th<strong>at</strong> an upper red leaf corresponds to a lower brown leaf, and vice versa. <strong>The</strong> red color has disappeared. Findspot: Central-south area <strong>of</strong> the Forum (Drain 1937-1).214 <strong>The</strong> fragment was found in a context d<strong>at</strong>able between the end <strong>of</strong> the 5th and the first quarter <strong>of</strong> the 4th century B.C. <strong>The</strong> hawksbeak molding,215 which origin<strong>at</strong>es <strong>at</strong> the beginning <strong>of</strong> the 6th century B.C. in architectural ornament, is usually decor<strong>at</strong>ed, as on 109, with a a decor<strong>at</strong>ive function, mostly as a capping element in architecture and in sculpture. It is common especially during the second half <strong>of</strong> the 6th century. Among the different applic<strong>at</strong>ions in which the hawksbeak molding is found, those most similar to our examples are in terracotta; there is a notable difficulty in finding precise comparisons in monumental architecture. 109 more closely resembles the class <strong>of</strong> little L<strong>at</strong>e Archaic, terracotta altars produced in Corinth.216 On the altars it is possible to find the same wide curves <strong>of</strong> the beak, the fillet in relief which borders it below, and the same decor<strong>at</strong>ive syntax <strong>of</strong> the cym<strong>at</strong>ion with its wide proportions. <strong>The</strong> same form, with an identical position and function and decor<strong>at</strong>ed with a painted Doric cym<strong>at</strong>ion, is found on a large perirrhanterion from Isthmia, d<strong>at</strong>ed before the middle <strong>of</strong> the 6th century B.C.217 It is also found on a fragment <strong>of</strong> a perirrhanterion support with spiral flutes, again from Isthmia and probably d<strong>at</strong>able to the first half <strong>of</strong> the 6th century. <strong>The</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>ile <strong>of</strong> this piece presents slightly different characteristics, compared to our fragment: the fl<strong>at</strong>tened upper portion is nearer to the cavetto form.2"8 Considering the fact th<strong>at</strong> all the most relevant comparisons d<strong>at</strong>e near the end <strong>of</strong> the 6th century,219 one could assume a similar d<strong>at</strong>e for 109 220 Ca. 500 B.C. 110. Stand fragment Fig. 6, P1. 80 Doric cym<strong>at</strong>ion which is painted or in relief. Many ASP 183. H. 0.07, W. 0.212, est. D. ca. 0.29, Th. earlier fragments <strong>at</strong>test to the evolution <strong>of</strong> the ca- 0.035; W. <strong>of</strong> flutes 0.053. vetto form into the hawksbeak, which assumes its Compact, slightly impure, light-brown clay definitive characteristics before the middle <strong>of</strong> the 6th (7.5YR 6/4) with predominantly gray inclusions, 214 For the 1937 excav<strong>at</strong>ion conducted between the Bema and the South Stoa, see C. H. Morgan, "Excava- tions <strong>at</strong> Corinth, 1936-1937," AJA 41, 1937, pp. 539-552, pl. XIII: 2; idem, "Excav<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> Corinth, Au- tumn 1937," AJA 42,1938, pp. 362-370; Williams and Fisher, 1972, p. 154, note 17; Corinth VII, iv, pp. 23- 24, no. 10. 215 L. T. Shoe, Pr<strong>of</strong>iles <strong>of</strong> Greek Mouldings, Cambridge, Mass. 1936, pp. 100-130, pls. L-LXI. Among all the pr<strong>of</strong>iles, the most similar is th<strong>at</strong> <strong>of</strong> the terracotta fragment from Perachora: Hawksbeak I, p. 103, pl. LI, no. 11, d<strong>at</strong>ed to the first half <strong>of</strong> the 6th century B.C.; cf. also Le Roy and Duc<strong>at</strong> (footnote 16 above), pl. 99. 216 For a discussion <strong>of</strong> the Corinthian altars, see Williams, 1979, pp. 136-140, with bibliography in note 33. See also Corinth XV, ii, pp. 272-274, 282, pl. 59, no. 67; Perachora II, pp. 283-284, no. 2775, pls. 133-134. 217 See footnote 236 below. 218 0. Broneer, "Excav<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> Isthmia 1959-1961," Hesperia 31, 1962 (pp. 1-25), p. 22, no. 3, pl. 10:b. For the pr<strong>of</strong>ile, see Shoe (footnote 215 above), p. 103, pl. LI:12. 219 I know <strong>of</strong> no small Corinthian altar with a hawksbeak pr<strong>of</strong>ile similar to ours which can be d<strong>at</strong>ed much l<strong>at</strong>er than 500 B.C. <strong>The</strong> 5th-century d<strong>at</strong>e <strong>of</strong> the noted Baltimore altar seems deb<strong>at</strong>able to me. It should prob- ably be raised a little; CVA, Robinson Collection, Baltimore 1 [USA 4], p. 57, pl. 48 [181]. 220 Cf. also 110, 1ll.
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