Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KT 12014 | |
Title: | FEMALE FIGURINE HEAD | |
Category: | Minor Finds | |
Category Code: | KT | |
Object Number: | 12 | |
Object Suffix: | 014 | |
Description: | Female head with indistinct features and large mass of hair resting on an almond-shaped piece of clay, possibly a pillow or attachment for a vessel. No breaks evident, but a small hole into the pillow below the left ear could be a point of attachment. Features very worn. | |
Decoration: | White slip over all | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few small inclusions and few small voids | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. One frgt preserving head and possible pillow or other attachment. Some cracking on surface. White slip very poorly preserved. | |
Manufacture: | CO | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | Middle to 3rd quarter of the 4th c. B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 43) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P61 | |
Provenance: | Corinth. | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61) |