| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 8992 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: FEMALE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 8992 | |
| Description: | Terracotta mouldmade hollow female figurine with hair parted at center, framing face, deeply incised tooling marks deliniating locks. Triangular forehead, deep inset eyes, upper eyelids well defined. Nose very prominent. Similar to MF69-66 and MF-8994. | |
| Decoration: | White slip and yellow paint on hair and face . | |
| Material: | Fine reddish gray clay with few small platy rounded white, rare small platy angular red, and frequent fine sparkling inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 10R 6/1 (reddish gray), Paint: 5YR 5/8 (yellowish red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single small piece preserving front of forehead, broken across both eyes and nose and at the top of the head. Traces of white slip and yellow paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 F MM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.020, W. of head 0.028, Th. 0.012 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Late 3rd c. B.C. stylistically or end of 3rd c. B.C. based on C47-283 SAH Rhodian (VG #C232) or 204-181 B.C. by the coin of Ptolemy V in well XIV | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB195 P159 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: color 0031 Basket: NB195 P159 Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 85 (pp. 159 - 160) |
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