Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KH 27 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA MOLD FOR A FEMALE HEAD | |
Category: | Minor Finds | |
Category Code: | KH | |
Object Number: | 27 | |
Description: | Mould for a female face. Hair in a heavy mass rolled over narrow fillet. Oval face with rounded chin. Features of mouth destroyed by break. Inscription on back ambiguious due to break; may read MO or NIO. Handmade from model. | |
Decoration: | Undecorated. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed into back of mould with sharp tool, Greek: | |
Material: | Fine pink clay with rare fine inclusions and rare small, circular voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/3 (pink) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining frgts, preserving all of face except lower right side | |
Manufacture: | F01 F HM | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 211), based on deposit | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P44 | |
Provenance: | Corinth. | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Court, Deposit 4. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, cat. 29 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 27 (pp. 44 - 45) |