| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KT 24009 | |
| Title: | GROTESQUE FIGURINE, HEAD | |
| Category: | Minor Finds | |
| Category Code: | KT | |
| Object Number: | 24 | |
| Object Suffix: | 009 | |
| Description: | Solid grotesque male head, back handmade and flat. Neck, small and tapering, forms projection which inserted into socket in neck of figurine. Top of head slightly conical. Forehead marked by long wrinkles. Brows heavy, pulled up in points, and outlined with narrow grooves. Eyeball formed by raised boss with depression in center to indicate pupil. Line of strongly marked upper lid continued in wrinkle running from outer corner of eye to ear. Nose projects nearly at right angles to forehead and is bent to right. Wings of nose strongly marked and asymmetrical. Cheek bones and jaw muscles very prominent. Mouth wide open. Upper lip droops in center. Deep wrinkles from corners of nose to mouth. Ears rendered by large shallow depressions with projecting rims. Stolen 1990; returned i/25/01. Intact. IFAR #720. | |
| Material: | Fine Corinthian brown clay | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete head, neck. | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | 3rd quarter of 4th c., according to Corinth 15.2 | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB106 P103 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth. | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 19.9; Grmek and Gourevitch 1998, Les Maladies dans l'art antique, p. 234-5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Images (6) Basket: NB106 P103 Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 57 (pp. 104 - 105) |
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