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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | V 300 | | Title: | | VOTIVE HEAD CA. 1/2 LIFE-SIZE | | Category: | | Votive | | Category Code: | | V | | Object Number: | | 300 | | Description: | | Head, ca. half life-size, wearing hair short. Hair rendered by small wads or pellets of clay applied to head, then gouged, to create impression of tufts of hair. Along top of neck short incised strokes for hair. Neck cylindrical in so far as preserved, flaring slightly at lower break. Small hole (diam. 0.005) at top of head for venting. Interior shows overlapping wads of clay which continue from head through neck. | | Decoration: | | Red paint applied directly to hair. White slip, over which pink paint on neck. | | Material: | | Fine pinkish-tan clay, gray at core. | | Munsell Color: | | Between 7.5YR 6/6 and 5YR 6/6 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Many joining fragments giving top and back of head, back of neck, broken at attachment to shoulder. Not clear whether originally part of a larger statue or only head. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.156 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Images (4)
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