Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 399 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF CHILD: HEAD | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 399 | |
Description: | Mouldmade terracotta figurine of infant or child with high forehead, small but heavy eyes with depressed (not incised) eyeballs, wide, short nose, and small, puckered mouth. Full cheeks and rounded chin. Cap or hood covers head. Short projection at proper left and incised line running roughly vertically on this side suggest figurine may have been attached to something. Figurine hollow. Tool or fingerpring marks on top and side of head and across face. | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few medium rounded spherical voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving front of head. | |
Period: | 3rd c. B.C. | |
Area: | Odeion | |
Context: | NB96 P140 | |
Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 452. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Odeion Image: bw 3770 Notebook Page: NB 96, spread 75 (pp. 140 - 141) |