Corinth Object: MF 2006 24
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