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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 10881 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: BIRD | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 10881 | |
| Description: | Terracotta handmade perching dove with long large upward curving beak, small head, long pointed foot, large oval concave body, hollow underneath, and narrowing toward tail. Palm print visible on back. Similar to KT41-43 (Corinth XV.2 Class XXVII Late group p. 186 no. 14 pl. 42). | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with frequent fine sparkling and few small tabular angular white inclusions and rare small platy angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Several joining fragments preserving beak, head, base of neck, rt foot, and body. Large chips broken along back rear and start of tail. Neck RIP. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F17 U HM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.063, W. 0.022, Th.0.006 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | H. 0.048 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 5th to 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class XXVII no. 14 TC Factory Deposit 6 ca. mid 4th c. B.C.) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB247 B2 P142 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 004 02 Basket: NB247 B2 P142 |
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