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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 3456 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF PREGNANT (?) FEMALE FIGURE | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 3456 | | Description: | | Handmade terracotta figurine of nude standing figure, perhaps female because of large, possibly pregnant, belly, but no with no modelling of breasts. Possibly grotesque. Head raised with face pointing upward. Hair dressed in waves around face, possibly wearing headband. Eyes with thick lids, lightly incised eyebrows, large nose, rounded cheeks, squared jaw. Long, thick neck. Arms flung out wide. Large, distended belly, perhaps pregnant, with shallow rounded puncture indicating navel. Back largely unmodelled except for short projecting buttocks. Body of figurine perhaps painted red. Figurine solid. | | Decoration: | | Red paint on back. | | Material: | | Fine very pale brown clay with frequent very small rounded spherical inclusions and few small voids. | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head, top halves of arms, torso. Traces of red paint on back and at very bottom of front along break. | | Period: | | Classical | | Chronology: | | late 6th or early 5th c. B.C. | | Findspot Description: | | Found with painted pinakes in trial excavation at Penteskouphia in 1911. | | Bibliography: | | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 153. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Image: bw 3775
Image: bw 2006 020 01a
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