| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1972 18 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA HANDMADE FEMALE FIGURINE WITH MOLDMADE HEAD | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 1972 | |
| Object Number: | 18 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade head. Flat, handmade body, tall polos made of strip of clay, concave on top. Locks of hair (4), dress ornamentation handmade, applied. Individual locks of hair distinguished over forehead, probably parted in center. Long hair hanging in four incised locks to necklace. Facial features archaic. Eyes almost triangular and curving mouth. Large, applied disk on each shoulder joined by curving necklace. Three smaller disks above necklace, two below (proper right one missing). Trace of another ornament hanging from disk on proper left shoulder. Back of figurine flat. | |
| Decoration: | Red paint on dress, bottom of necklace and back of shoulder discs. | |
| Material: | Fine, hard Corinthian clay, fired buff on outside, core remains buff to gray. Limestone inclusions. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Upper body, head preserved. Body missing below breasts, arms missing below shoulders. Polos chipped on proer right side. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 F CO | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.049; T. 0.016 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB525 B168 P187 | |
| NB545 B90 P76 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Construction fill for South Stoa, N. Stylobate. | |
| Bibliography: | Williams, Angel, Burns & Fisher, Hesperia, XLII, 1973, p.8 and pl.3; Merker 2003, Corinth 20, fig. 14.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Williams, et al. Hesperia 42:1, 1973 Monument: Forum southwest Basket: NB525 B168 P187 Notebook Page: NB 525, spread 98 (p. 187) |
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