Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 11467 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DOG | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 11467 | |
Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dog with pointed snout rectangular head, eye ridge, pointed ears, short neck, thick front legs, r. oval and l. round in section, long body, r. hind leg straight flaring back, tail curving sharply upward. Similar to KT32-32 (Corinth XV.2 Class XXV Late Group p. 181 no.14 pl. 40). | |
Decoration: | White slip overall. Black paint around neck, back of ears, and snout. | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with frequent fine sparkling and few small tabular angular white inclusions and few fine spherical angular and few medium to large platy angular voids | |
Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Paint: 7.5YR 4/1 (dark gray) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining fragments missing front legs and rear lt leg. One chip along the rt snout and two large breaks along the back of the torso. White slip and traces of paint. | |
Manufacture: | F11 U HM | |
Dimensions Actual: | L. 0.075, Th. of torso 0.014 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.048, W. 0.021 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
Context: | NB232 B4 P146 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 005 20 Basket: NB232 B4 P146 |