Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 2006 24 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FEMALE FIGURINE | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Year: | 2006 | |
Object Number: | 24 | |
Description: | Female figurine with head tilted to proper right and slightly front; oval face with high triangular forehead, deep set eyes, full lips slightly parted unsmiling, rounded jaw; hair long, wavy, parted in center from front to back, gathered in two long braids at back of neck; small attached round earrings; two creases on front neck, mantle covering back of neck and shoulders. Face and neck modeling similar to MF 13748 (Corinth XVIII.4, p. 226, no. H199, pl. 42). | |
Decoration: | Face and neck white-slipped. | |
Material: | Fine very pale brown clay fired reddish yellow at core with few medium spherical rounded white lime, few medium tabular angular black inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown), Core: 5YR 6/8 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt preserving head, neck, and small part of back. Traces of white slip on neck. Hole at the back of the head. | |
Manufacture: | F01 F CO | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. of head 0.031, W. of head 0.025 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.059 | |
Period: | Hellenistic | |
Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. ? | |
Area: | Panaghia north | |
Context: | NB980 B20 P59 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia north Image: bw 2008 067 13 Basket: NB980 B20 P59 |