Corinth Object: MF 2398
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)