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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 22001 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 22 | | Object Suffix: | | 001 | | Description: | | Figurine of draped, standing, male, comic actor. Figure stands with bent left elbow jutting out, resting hand on hip and bent right arm kept close to body, concealed under himation. Straight legs kept close together, feet touching. Head (H. 0.014) partly covered with himation, straight, smooth hairline visible on forehead, fairly level, prominent brow, short, wide nose, wide, grinning mouth, broad, long, smooth, pointed beard. Short chiton and himation. Distended belly and flat back. Looped phallus. Small, irregularly-shaped base. Solid. Mouldmade with tooling and handworking on back and legs. Mask M (MMC 3rd ed.), but perhaps K. | | Decoration: | | White slip. Dark pink paint on feet. | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare fine spherical and tabular angular black and brown inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Intact, somewhat worn. Traces of white slip all over and dark pink paint on feet. | | Manufacture: | | F08 M MM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | based on style | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 10, p. 143; MMC 2nd ed., p. 50, cat. CT 5; MMC 3rd ed., p. 97, cat. CT 4 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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