Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 3250 | |
Title: | BASE OF SITULA HANDLE | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 3250 | |
Description: | Hollow, mouldmade protome of Dionysos. Hair parted in the middle and bound around the forehead by a strophion. Closely set deep eyes below a low forehead. Applied clay preserved around the proper right side of the head for attachment to situla. | |
Mythology: | Dionysus | |
Material: | Moderately coarse yellow-buff clay with scattered fine dark inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Between 7.5YR 7/4 and 10YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper half of protome from crown to eyes, seam on right for attachment. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | W00.048 (face, temples) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.058 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Area: | Zygouries | |
Context: | Zygouries, Found in box of Grave 7, 35 | |
Provenance: | Corinth ? | |
Site: | Zygouries | |
City: | Agios Basilios | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Zygouries Basket: Zygouries, Found in box of Grave 7, 35 |