Corinth Object: MF 2016 25
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 2016 25
Title:   LATE NEOLITHIC FIGURINE
Category Code:   MF
Year:   2016
Object Number:   25
Description:   Late Neolithic terracotta figurine with columnar foot or leg, widening slightly and flaring significantly toward one end, other end flares out slightly. Similar to MF-8507 (Phelps 1987, Hesperia, cat. 25, p. 247). Variance in color possibly due to differential firing if one side was shielded by other leg of figurine.
Material:   Gray to dark gray clay with few fine to small white subrounded spherical and rare glossy black angular tabular inclusions; frequent rounded voids, possibly from organic temper.
Munsell Color:   2.5Y 6-4/0 (gray to dark gray)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of figurine. Granular breaks at one end. Surface pock marked with tan accretions inside. Blackened along one side and unbroken end. Gray in break and along other side.
Weight Description:   .030446
Weight:   .030446
Period:   Late Neolithic
Chronology:   based on comparanda
Area:   South Stoa
Context:   South Stoa, context 513, LOT 2016 042
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa
Image: digital 2016 3503
Basket: South Stoa, context 513