| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 947 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: HEAD | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 947 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade terracotta figurine of a (male?) figure wearing a cap, hat, or other head covering with a thick band. Thick, curly hair frames face. Facial features indistinct, but chin relatively pointy. Face and head covering painted in white slip or white paint. Back of head roughly finished by hand. Head of figurine solid except for small circular (diam. 1mm) hole that runs vertically through neck and top of head. | |
| Decoration: | White paint or white slip. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay fired pink at core with common small rounded spherical voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head and neck; proper right half of face missing. Traces of white paint or white slip on neck, face, and head. | |
| Area: | Odeion | |
| Context: | NB92 P104 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Odeion Notebook Page: NB 92, spread 54 (pp. 103 - 104) |
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