| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 3522 | |
| Title: | HANDMADE FIGURINE: CENTAUR | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 3522 | |
| Old Number: | TC-249 TS-236 | |
| Description: | Small handmade figurine of centaur: horse body and stump legs; human torso with large grotesque head: pointed ears, upright tufts of hair between ears, enormous projecting nose, round blobs for eyes, slit mouth with ring of clay for lips, round-tipped beard with vertical slashes, rt. arm bent, hand on hip, left possibly extended; genitals modeled. | |
| Decoration: | Decorated in red-brown paint: on hair and beard, outline on ears, outline with dot on eyes, long stripe down nose; horizontal stripes on body, arms, front of forelegs; vertical stripes down back of forelegs and back legs; long wide stripe from back of head to stump tail, with vertical stripes on torso. | |
| Mythology: | Centaur | |
| Material: | Fine pale brown clay with rare fine voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/4 to 10YR 7/5 | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single frgt., intact except for left arm and tips of two forelegs. | |
| Manufacture: | F22 M HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.062 L00.061 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Archaic | |
| Area: | Tseliolophos | |
| Context: | NB555 P60 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1931 P425 Fig. 2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Shear, American Journal of Archaeolog35:4... 1931a Monument: Tseliolophos Image: bw 2001 004 36 Basket: NB555 P60 Notebook Page: NB 555, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61) |
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