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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 9068 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: FEMALE | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 9068 | | Description: | | Terracotta moulded hollow female figurine with head tilted lt., neck angling to rt., wavy hair parted in center, framing face, covering upper ears, pulled back and secured at the base of the head tucked in a double knot like a bow. Horizontal tooling strokes denote locks radiating from the center part to the base of the head. High triangular forehead, both eyelids and brow well defined over large deep set upward gazing eyes. Round earlobe on lt. Solid neck, hollow but thick walled head with unworked rough interior. Added clay and tooling on hair but more work on front than back. Composition similar to but larger than MF68-377 (Corinth XVIII.4, p. 167, 250 no. H235 pl. 44) and similar size but less deeply tooled than MF-13507 (CXVIII.4, p. 257-8, 263 no. H427 pl. 60). | | Decoration: | | Traces of white slip. Red paint preserved on hair and forehead. | | Material: | | Fine pink clay with rare very large platy angular mudstone, frequent small to very large tabular rounded black, rare medium tabular rounded white and rare fine sparkling inclusions | | Munsell Color: | | Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) Core: 10YR 6/2 (Brownish gray) Paint: 10R 5/6 (red) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving all of back of head to neck and half of front and broken across nose down. Blackened area on hair on lt side. | | Manufacture: | | F01 F CO | | Dimensions Actual: | | Th. 0.017, W. of head 0.050 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.069, H. of head 0.050 | | Period: | | Hellenistic | | Chronology: | | late 3rd c. B.C. stylistically (Between Corinth XVIII.4 no. H235 and H427) or 323-251 B.C. by a coin of Sicyon in Well XVIII | | Area: | | South Stoa | | Context: | | NB195 P85 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: South Stoa
Basket: NB195 P85
Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 48 (pp. 85 - 86)
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