| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1972 19 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA MINIATURE ALTAR | |
| MOLDMADE TERRACOTTA FEMALE HEAD | ||
| GLASS BOWL OR CUP | ||
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 1972 | |
| Object Number: | 19 | |
| Description: | Terracotta miniature altar rectangular (?) in shape, hollow inside, with flat top, hawksbeak crowning moulding on one side, flat second side. H. of fascia 0.009, H. of hawksbeak 0.028, H. of half-round 0.006. Similar to MF 1954a, b (Corinth XII p. 130, no. 883, fig. 21, pl. 65). | |
| Mouldmade. Hair drawn into knot over forehead. Bound up by double fillet. Hair around face swept back. Hair possibly braided but obscured on top of head by extra clay added because of defective mould. Traces of 2 part mould running vertically at back of head. Curved incision in top of head. | ||
| Glass cup or bowl with fire-polished rim, double-folded flange at transition to body. | ||
| Decoration: | Very pale brown slip on exterior surfaces. Beginning at top: fascia painted with alternating vertical black and red stripes at regular intervals. Hawksbeak moulding painted with Doric leaf and Doric leaf reversed outlined in black with alternating black and red leaves. Half-round moulding painted red. No trace of decoration on second side or on top. Similar to MF 1954a, b (Corinth XII p. 130, no. 883, fig. 21, pl. 65) and KN 78 (Corinth XV.2, p. 282, no. 67, pl. 59). | |
| Remains of white slip, red paint. | ||
| Material: | Coarse pink clay fired pale brown at core with common medium to very large, spherical angular mudstone, rare small spherical rounded white lime and red, few fine sparkling inclusions and few small voids. | |
| Fine, hard pink Corinthian clay, with inclusions. | ||
| Colorless bluish glass, no impurities, very few pinpricks. | ||
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Core: 10YR 6/3 (pale brown), Slip: 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving corner. Slip and black and red paint well preserved. | |
| Fragment. Broken off at the neck. Hair, neck chipped. | ||
| Fragment. Two frgts., preserving part of rim, partly iridescent. | ||
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| F01 F MM | ||
| Free Blown | ||
| Dimensions Actual: | H. of moulding 0.041 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.047, L. 0.091, W. 0.051, Th. 0.023 | |
| H. 0.043; W. 0.024 | ||
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| 2nd c. A.C. | ||
| Chronology: | Late 6th c. B.C. based on closest parallel MF 1954a, b. | |
| late 2nd c. AD, according to Antonaras | ||
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB966 B103 P181, LOT 2005 006 | |
| NB545 B108 P90 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Corinth. | ||
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2005 026 10 Basket: NB966 B103 P181 Notebook Page: NB 966, spread 95 (pp. 180 - 181) |
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