| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 227 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE: RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 227 | |
| Description: | Portion of right side of face and hair, hollow, with interior smooth and finished. Hair apparently added as separate clay coils, formed into a series of raise, wavy tresses, worked so that the surface undulates in sharp edged grooves but is all one piece. Behind these tresses, a smooth band, possibly a taenia. | |
| Decoration: | White slip, pink or nude paint on face; on hair, red paint only; on taenia, white or pink paint. | |
| Material: | Fine light gray clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/2 (light grey) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment, broken all around and across top and bottom of hair, and preserving a small sliver of face and of smooth clay surface behind the front hair tresses. Clay surface very well preserved, with slip and paint almost entirely present. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. Of face 0.013, L. of first tress of hair above forehead 0.044 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | Max. p. dim. 0.102 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, 1932 Kriebardi fill | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 1997 002 21a |
|
Show Objects (323) References Sign in Provide feedback |
|