| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 13007 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR HOLDING CHILD | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 13007 | |
| Description: | Figurine of draped, male, comic actor holding child. Bent right arm reaches across chest to support child who rests on figure's left arm and shoulder. Good head (H. 0.021) of waving hair reaching shoulders and forming slight peak on forehead. Several furrows on forehead, prominent, wavy brows. Round, bulging eyes with punctured (or chipped?) pupils, wide, open mouth. Long, wide, wavy, pointed beard. Somewhat distended belly, rounded, roughly-modelled back. Wears short-sleaved chiton. Hollow. Mouldmade with tooled details and handworked back. Likely from Attic model (see MMC 3rd ed.). | |
| Decoration: | Orange hair. | |
| Material: | Fine pale yellow clay with little to no inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 7/4 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Preserved head to belly; missing left arm, right and left edges of belly, lower back, legs, and whole upper body of child. Minor chipping of nose, beard, and other edges. Fairly crisp. Traces of orange paint on back of head | |
| Manufacture: | F08 M CO | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | based on style | |
| Area: | Minor Projects | |
| Context: | NB346 B36 P177 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Minor Projects |
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