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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 1034 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF MALE FIGURE PLAYING PIPES | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 1034 | | Description: | | Mouldmade terracotta figurine of a Silenus- or Pan-type figure playing double flute or double pipes. Face grotesque. Head bald, with wrinkled forehead, pointed ears, heavy brows. Eyebrows incised after figurine removed from mould. Eyes large and indicated in black paint. Nose short and snubbed. Cheeks puffed out and mouth obscured by pipes. Drooping mustache and heavy beard. Beard and hair painted red. Double flutes or double pipes extend nearly vertically down from mouth. Left shoulder bare. Figurine hollow through shoulders (head solid). Back flat, smoothed by hand. Likely from same mould as MF-1035; KT22-4. | | Decoration: | | Black paint on eyes; red paint on hair, beard. | | Mythology: | | Pan; Silenus | | Attributes: | | double flute | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare rounded spherical and tabular voids | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head and left shoulder. Traces of black paint on eyes, red paint on beard. | | Period: | | 5th c. B.C. | | Area: | | Peribolos of Apollo | | Context: | | NB49 P118 | | Bibliography: | | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 194; cited in Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, p. 143, note 10; Schmalig, Kabirion V, n. 132. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Peribolos of Apollo
Image: bw 3768
Notebook Page: NB 49, spread 40 (pp. 117 - 118)
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