| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 8996 | |
| Title: | MOLDMADE FIGURINE: SEATED WOMAN | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 8996 | |
| Description: | Hollow, mouldmade figurine of grotesque enthroned woman, seated with feet on footstool. knees spread, rt. hand resting on rt. knee, lt. arm possibly down? Head wrapped in high turban, covering hair. Wears chiton with sagging neckline, elbow-length sleeves, clinging to pronounced sagging breasts and big belly; drapery falls from rt. knee to lt. ankle in deep catenaries; rt. lower leg bare, but wearing calf-height boot. Throne or chair has projecting wings at top, now missing, no clear armrest; front leg fluted, sides solid. Low footstool with projecting feet, hollow "eggs" across front. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all; traces of yellow paint on drapery on lower lt. leg, red on boot, footstool. | |
| Material: | Fine brown to light red-brown clay with laminating fractures. | |
| Munsell Color: | Between 7.5YR 6/4 and 5YR 6/5 | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Numerous joining frgts., preserving complete figure except for face, back of head, neck, left arm, left side of throne including front leg and plinth, right back corner of throne, top wings; small chips at joints. After theft: some damage done; pos | |
| Manufacture: | 01 F MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.175 H00.016 (plinth) | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Hellenistic, context 3rd c. B.C. | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB194 P110 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: bw 5985 Image: bw 2001 008 29 Image: bw 2001 008 30 Basket: NB194 P110 Notebook Page: NB 194, spread 59 (pp. 109 - 110) |
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