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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11541 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: STANDING FEMALE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11541 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade standing female with polos formed from thin applied clay strip wrapped over front of head, clay overfold from back to front for head, oblong face with pinched vertical ridge in center, slight indentation for lt eye and incision for mouth, broad flat neck curving into round strip arms, rt extending straight out, body, oval in section, flaring near bottom into two pinched splayed feet. Fingerprints on head face, and neck. Similar in form to KT1-197 (Corinth XV.2 Corinth Class I Late Group no. 57 p.41-42 pl. 4) but with painted eyes but may be from a Dancing Group however none have this type of face. | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. Red paint on rt side of head and neck. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare small to large spherical angular white inclusions and few medium tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Paint: 10R 5/6 (red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving female from head to feet. Missing most of polos but preserving impression, most of both arms, and rt foot. Broken across base. Traces of white slip and paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 F HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.074 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 5th to 4th c. B.C. stylistically 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class I Late Group) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB247 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | NB251 P97 for lot | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 006 34 Basket: NB247 |
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