| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1351 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF FEMALE FIGURE (GROTESQUE?) | |
| TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF SATYR | ||
| PIERCED LEAD WEIGHT OR SEAL | ||
| PAINTED PLASTER | ||
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 1351 | |
| Related Objects: | ZPL 8 | |
| Description: | Handmade terracotta figurine of female figure, with rectangular peg, rounded at bottom, for insertion into separate body. Face flat, with nose, ears, and chin pinched out of lump of clay. Eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and hole in left ear made with pointed instrument. Face very square, especially jawline. Hair, ending in pointed knot at nape, indicated by roughly straight incised lines. Headband or sphendone indicated on top of head by incised lines. Face crude, possibly grotesque or made by child/novice. Head perhaps made separately from neck-peg, then smoothed together with peg. Small fingerprint on back side of neck-peg. | |
| Mouldmade terracotta figurine of satyr. Figure has human torso and goat legs. He stands with legs in profile to left, torso and head frontal, left arm at side, right arm bent across chest. Two short horns project from top of head beneath cloak or hat. Face is grotesque, with heavy brows, large, snubbed nose, small mouth, and large, long ears. He holds object (cup?) in right hand. Tail indicated at lower back. Penis is large, but not grotesque, and points slightly upward to left. Back not modelled but smooth. Figure stands on low rectangular plinth with rounded back. Vented from bottom only. | ||
| Round weight or seal, hollow, flat, with small round boss in center, at top and bottom, pierced longitudinaly, raised ridge around circumference. Similar to MF 7859. | ||
| Painted plaster of Blegen's second type (gray, more porous, less shattered, and damaged by fire), showing a vertical band of large spirals in white with black outline, and bordered by transverse parallel lines in red on dark ground, and interspaces in red. | ||
| Decoration: | Red paint on hat or cloak, face, background; white slip throughout. Shallow incised line indicates toes on right hoof. | |
| Mythology: | Satyr | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with micaceous inclusions. | |
| Fine reddish yellow clay with medium sub-rounded tabular voids. | ||
| Lead | ||
| Painted Plaster | ||
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
| 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | ||
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact, except for proper right ear. | |
| Complete or intact. Complete. Traces of red paint or slip on head between horns, beneath left eye, and at proper right of right leg. Traces of white slip throughout. | ||
| Complete or intact. Intact. Small piece pushed into break on side. | ||
| Fragment. 5 frgts., RIP, broken all around, burned, preserving surface adhering to baked mudbrick | ||
| Dimensions Preserved: | Th. 0.006, Diam. 0.013 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.006 | |
| Weight: | 0.006 | |
| Period: | No precise date (NPD) | |
| Late Helladic III | ||
| Area: | Odeion | |
| Nezi Field | ||
| Context: | NB101 P87 | |
| Nezi Field, context 684, LOT 2012 003 | ||
| Findspot Description: | Provenance unknown. From box of antiquities stolen by police. | |
| Fallen from upper story of potter's shop, Zygouries | ||
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 347. | |
| Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 37, pl III.1 | ||
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Nezi Field Monument: Odeion Images (6) Basket: Nezi Field, context 684 Notebook Page: NB 101, spread 49 (pp. 86 - 87) Notebook Page: NB 550, spread 24 (pp. 39 - 40) |
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