| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1057 | |
| Title: | PAINTED PLASTER WITH HEAD OF SAINT | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Object Number: | 1057 | |
| Related Objects: | MF-4310 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Wall plaster decorated with head of saint against a black field. Head surrounded by ochre halo. Drawn 3/4 proper lt.; wears low red headdress or polos with yellow stitched border, white dots; curly white hair outlined with black, white beard. Thick eyebrows, eye rendered with black dot at inner corner, white highlight. Face brown with light peach, white, and red dot highlights. | |
| Material: | Soft plaster with high lime content, some small stones. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around. | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | or later | |
| Area: | St. John's | |
| Context: | NB150 P80 | |
| Findspot Description: | St. John's. From Tomb G in narthex(?). | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: St. John's Basket: NB150 P80 |
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