| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2003 6 | |
| Title: | IVORY PIN | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2003 | |
| Object Number: | 6 | |
| Description: | Pin with shaft circular in section and head in the form of a female head; cf. Corinth XII, no. 2348. | |
| Decoration: | Head of pin in the form of a female head with sharp angular facial features, pointed nose, lips, and chin, hair in a braid around the face behind the ears falling down in three separate parts on the back of the neck, right ear preserved faintly carved; braided circular wreath underneath the bust and separated from it by deep incision. | |
| Material: | Bone or ivory. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt preserving half the shaft of pin and almost complete head of pin with hair of female head only partly missing. | |
| Manufacture: | HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.004 (shaft) T00.006 (head) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.039 | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Chronology: | Roman | |
| Findspot Description: | Found by Thanasis Sakellariou from Athikia on top of the road scarp, east of wall 131 foundations (NB955) in Panayia Field. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 2003 013 32 Image: bw 2003 013 33 |
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