| Collection: | | Corinth |
| Type: | | Object |
| Name: | | MF 1438 |
| Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF MASKED FIGURE (?): HEAD |
| Category Code: | | MF |
| Object Number: | | 1438 |
| Description: | | Terracotta figurine of figure wearing a mask (?). Deep undercutting around face suggests outline of mask. Large, flat eyes; thin straight mouth. Hair represented by straight incised lines radiating from top of head and bordered with narrow band. Large hole piercing head from center of forehead to and through nape of neck. Lips and eyes perhaps painted red. |
| Decoration: | | Red paint in mouth and on eyes. |
| Attributes: | | mask |
| Material: | | Fine very pale brown clay with common small rounded spherical inclusions and common small rounded and sub-rounded spherical voids. |
| Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown) |
| Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head. Traces of red paint inside mouth, on bottom eyelid of left eye. |
| Period: | | 3rd c. B.C. |
| Chronology: | | or 2nd c. B.C. |
| Area: | | New Hotel Byzantine Ephoreia |
| Context: | | NB115 P73 |
| Bibliography: | | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 344. |
| Site: | | Corinth |
| City: | | Ancient Corinth |
| Country: | | Greece |
| References: | | Monument: New Hotel Byzantine Ephoreia
Image: bw 3775
Notebook Page: NB 115, spread 42 (pp. 73 - 74)
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