| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 224 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE HEAD: CA. 1/2 LIFE-SIZE | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 224 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade male head, hollow. Chin rounded; lips slightly parted, punch hole in preserved right corner; groove for outside of nostril, punch holes for nostrils, depression for philtrum; long thin nose; small eyes, heavy lid, two grooves above upper lid; modelling for brow; incised lines at top of forehead indicate the presence of hair, though broken off, form of hair not observable. In back, comb marks where it appears the clay was pressed into mold. | |
| Decoration: | White slip, pink paint. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay, with rare, spherical, subrounded to rounded, black medium inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving right side of face from roots of hair above forehead to neck; tip of nose missing. Much pink paint preserved, stained black on chin. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 M MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. of right eye 0.019, H. of right eye 0.013, W. between inner corners eyes 0.017, W. of nose 0.020 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.098, W. 0.053 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, 1932 Kriebardi fill | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 6, p. 119 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Image: bw 5739 |
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