Corinth Object: KH 26
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KH 26
Title:   TERRACOTTA MOLD OF A LARGE FEMALE PROTOME
Category:   Minor Finds
Category Code:   KH
Object Number:   26
Description:   Mould for a large female protome, to waist. Figure holds arms and small hands up to chest. Raised ring encircles base of broad polos. Veil hangs from sides of polos to bottom of mould, covering shoulders and upper arms and draped in swallow-tail folds on either side. Hair worn in scalloped locks with depression in center of each, over forehead and covering ears. Eyes only faintly indicated. Short mouth with heavy lower lip. Cheeks full and chin very heavy. Edge of garment indicated in slight relief round base of neck. Modelling of breast slightly indicated. Two conical bosses on back of mould at shoulders, possibly to keep mould horizonal, but really too small for this. Similar to a group of maks found throughout mainland Greece, Asia Minor, and South Russia. This mould may have produced a mask in Berlin (Antiquarium 7528), a mask from the Asklepieion at Corinth (83), and several mask fragments from the cave at Pitsa. Handmade from model.
Decoration:   Undecorated.
Material:   Warm buff clay with fine polished slip.
Condition:   Complete or intact. Complete
Manufacture:   F24 F HM
Period:   4th c. B.C.
Chronology:   ca. 350-325 B.C., based on deposit (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 211)
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB114 P32
Provenance:   Corinth.
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Court, Deposit 4.
Bibliography:   Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, cat. 28
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Basket: NB114 P32
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 21 (pp. 32 - 33)