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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | V 100 | | Title: | | VOTIVE LIFE-SIZED BACK OF MALE HEAD | | Category: | | Votive | | Category Code: | | V | | Object Number: | | 100 | | Description: | | Large-scale head with hair worn short, rendered by deep gouges made in moist clay. Along hair line gouges run ca. vertically, rest horizontally and diagonally. Head hollow, interior built like SF-61-7, with overlapping strips. For similar style of hair, cf. SF-65-47. Slight ridge at junction of hair and neck, neck smooth. | | Decoration: | | Red applied directly to hair, white slip on neck, over which a yellowish paint (?). | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow to yellow clay, with one large, rounded, spherical, "popped" white inclusion. | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 7/4 (reddish yellow) to 10YR 7/4 (yellow) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Two joining fragments, mended, back of neck and head. Broken all around, surface preserving large patches of slip, paint. | | Manufacture: | | F28 M CO | | Dimensions Preserved: | | W. 0.112, Th. 0.020 | | Dimensions Restored: | | H. 0.144 | | Findspot Description: | | Asklepieion, no exact provenience | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Image: bw 1998 012 23
Image: bw 1998 012 33
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