| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 9250 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF OLD MAN (PHILOSOPHER TYPE) | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 9250 | |
| Old Number: | MF-9250A (number lapsed); MF-9250B (number lapsed) | |
| Description: | Mouldmade terracotta figurine of elderly man, standing with back stooped or hunched. Philosopher type. Pate of head bald, with tufts of curly white hair around sides and back of lower head. Forehead wrinkled, with heavy brows, eyes with heavy lids, relatively large nose, and small mouth. Wears beard and mustache. Shoulders hunched forward, chest bare with sagging skin on chest, stomach. Flabby stomach indicated by slight paunch and wrinkled skin. Himation, painted red, covers left arm and lower body. Black object hanging from left hand: perhaps part of himation, but likely an object, perhaps a scroll. Left arm bent slightly while left hand holds drapery; right hand hangs by side. Weight on left leg; right leg slightly bent. Flesh painted pink or beige-pink. Back rounded or hunched. Moulded in two parts (front and back). Figurine hollow. | |
| Decoration: | Red paint on garment; black paint on object held in left hand; pink or beige-pink paint on flesh; white slip or white paint on hair. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few medium rounded tabular voids and few small to medium rounded spherical inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Fifteen joining frgts., preserving head, front of right shoulder, right hand, front of torso, left hand, legs above knees. Red paint with black vertical fold preserved on drapery; white slip preserved on hair; beige-pink paint preserved on flesh. | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | down to 146 B.C. | |
| Area: | Southeast Building | |
| Context: | NB191 P160 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia (1949), Pl. 14, 7; Coroplast's Art, cited p. 60; Hesperia vol. 63 (1994), no. 85, p. 92, pl. 28. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Southeast Building Image: bw 6276 Basket: NB191 P160 Notebook Page: NB 191, spread 85 (pp. 159 - 160) |
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