Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 2398 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF STANDING BOY | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 2398 | |
Description: | Mouldmade terracotta figurine of standing male figure, probably a boy, partially draped. Left arm, bent at elbow, resting on stele, and left hand holds object, perhaps a vase or a bird. Right arm bent across chest to touch object held in left hand. Chest bare, with drapery hanging from left shoulder and covering lower body. Back rounded but unmodelled. Walls of figurine thick, with hollow cavity through body up to neck. Figure's body and drapery covered in white slip. | |
Decoration: | White slip on body and drapery. | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with common medium to large rounded tabular voids | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving torso, arms, and upper legs. Traces of white slip preserved on body, drapery. | |
Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
Area: | Peribolos of Apollo | |
Context: | NB103 P96 | |
Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 420. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Peribolos of Apollo Notebook Page: NB 103, spread 50 (pp. 96 - 97) |