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 |