| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KT 27001 | |
| Title: | PINAX WITH 2 FEMALE FIGURES IN RELIEF | |
| Category: | Minor Finds | |
| Category Code: | KT | |
| Object Number: | 27 | |
| Object Suffix: | 001 | |
| Description: | Plaque with relief figures on front, raised border across top. Two women face frontally arms upraised at side. Hair straight across forehead with 3 snail-shell curls to side of central part. Wig-like mass to shoulders. Faces triangular. Large eyes with prominent eyeballs, strongly marked brow ridges, painted black. Close-fitting dress with modelling of breast indicated. Hands open with palms facing out. Back flat. Much cutting around eyebrows, eyes and mouth. Face of lt. figure more oval than that of rt. face; incisions in figures; also cut straight back from surface. NOTE: Hole in back (ours for mounting). Stolen 1990. Returned 1/25/01. IFAR #752. Intact. | |
| Decoration: | Eyes outlined in black with large dotted pupils. Two thin parallel lines outline edges of dress at neck and armholes. Black line at waist. | |
| Material: | Hard pale yellow Corinthian clay. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper half of both figures; broken all edges. Right missing right arm, left missing left hand. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.086, W. 0.094, Th. ca. plaque 0.008, Th. max. 0.026 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 3rd. quarter of 7th c. B.C. | |
| Provenance: | Corinth. | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1931, p. 25, fig. 23; Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 1, p. 151; Stillwell, early 3rd. Quarter of 7th c. B.C. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952 Publication: Newhall, American Journal of Archaeolog35:1... 1931 Image: bw 2001 002 12 Image: bw 2001 002 13 Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 61 (pp. 112 - 113) |
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