Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KT 4085 | |
Title: | STANDING KORE | |
Category: | Minor Finds | |
Category Code: | KT | |
Object Number: | 4 | |
Object Suffix: | 085 | |
Description: | Female figure, draped, standing with straight legs; dove in right hand held in front of chest and pomegranate in left hand below. Wearing polos and chiton with deep overfold; traces of vertical folds to feet, which stand on a low base. Features very indistinct due to worn mold and/or erosion of surface. Back hollow. Likely from same mold as KT 4-76 (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, inv. X, 35), KT 4-77, KT 4-78, KT-79 and KT 4-80 from Deposit 1, as well as one from near that deposit, KT 4-83 and KT4-84 also from Deposit 2, four from elsewhere in the Terracotta Factory, two from the Circular South Shrine, and two more from elsewhere in the Potters' Quarter (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, p. 94). | |
Decoration: | Traces of white slip over all. | |
Material: | Fine, very pale brown clay with few small inclusions and few small voids | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete, but some damage to face; surface badly eroded; white slip poorly preserved | |
Manufacture: | F02 F MM Standing | |
Weight Description: | 0.038 | |
Weight: | 0.038 | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, p. 24) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P10 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, Court, Deposit 2 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 10 (pp. 10 - 11) |