Corinth Object: V 225
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   V 225
Title:   VOTIVE HEAD
Category:   Votive
Category Code:   V
Object Number:   225
Description:   Mouldmade hollow head with smooth interior. Hair raised above forehead, individual tresses possibly indicated by incised lines, eyes small and almond-shaped, with heavy lid and groove separating lid from brow bone, depression below eye, upper lip bowed.
Decoration:   White slip, yellow paint?
Material:   Fine light gray to light brownish gray clay, fired reddish yellow at surface.
Munsell Color:   Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 10YR 6/2 to 10YR 7/2 (light grey to light brownish grey)
Condition:   Fragment. Single fragment preserving most of left side of face, broken above left eye, down center of nose, between lips, and along left side of face; nose chipped; traces of slip and paint remaining on clay surface.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   L. of eye 0.012, H. of eye 0.008
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.080, W. 0.057
Findspot Description:   Asklepieion, 1932, Kriebardi fill
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece