Corinth Object: MF 274
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 274
Title:   TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF SEATED WOMAN
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   274
Description:   Mouldmade terracotta figurine of seated figure (woman?). Right hand rests on lap; fingers roughly indicated by incision. To proper left of hand are several objects: one small and round; one of similar size as hand, rounded, with indentation at center; and one oval or oblong. Drapery covering legs rendered by broadly gauged cross-hatching. Right foot peeks out from beneath garment and rests on short rectangular plinth made as part of figure. Mold seam at figurine's proper right; rest of this side is flat and unmodelled. Figurine is hollow.
Material:   Fine light brown clay, fired orange at core, with few medium, rounded spherical inclusions, micaceous inclusions, frequent small rounded spherical voids
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 6/4 (light brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving right hand, right leg, part of lap.
Period:   Roman
Area:   Odeion
Context:   NB92 P63
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Odeion
Image: bw 3776
Notebook Page: NB 92, spread 34 (pp. 63 - 64)