Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 13488 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 13488 | |
Description: | Figurine of draped standing female(?) comic actor(?). Figure stands with slightly bent left arm, held close to body, extending forearm forward. Bent right arm, held close to body, rests hand in middle of chest. Both arms covered by himation. Straight legs, shoulder-width apart, with left leg slightly forward. Distended belly and nearly flat, slightly concave, pared back. Himation, incised to indicate pattern or folds, reaches ankles. Hollow. Mouldmade with tooled details and back. | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with very rare small spherical sub-rounded brown and black inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Preserved neck to shins; missing head, feet, and front of base. Somewhat worn. | |
Manufacture: | F01 CO | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | based on Corinth 18.4 | |
Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
Context: | NB282 B3 P104, LOT 2249 | |
Bibliography: | Merker 2000, Corinth 18.4, cat. H362 | |
Site: | Acrocorinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Merker, Corinth 18:4, 2000 Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore Basket: NB282 B3 P104 |