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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 254 | | Title: | | EARLY HELLADIC ANIMAL HEAD | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 254 | | Description: | | Head of an animal with a long neck; horns and whole body below neck are missing; finished with a partial coat of glaze in the style of the pottery group B. The eyes are deeply punched round holes, each with a large raised pupil in it, which contributes not a little to the realistic effect. The snout is long and tapering, but ends in a flat surface. On the whole a rather casual piece of work, it nevertheless suggests that Early Helladic modellers were not without ability and some keenness of observation. (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 186) | | Decoration: | | The color is pale red. The front part of the head and the snout were not painted, but there is a ring around each eye, and on the top of the head and the neck a thicker coat than elsewhere may indicate shaggy hair. (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 186) | | Material: | | Light buff clay, not especially well pruified but baked hard | | Condition: | | Fragment. Horns, whole of body below neck missing | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H: 0.048; L: 0.033 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Findspot Description: | | SE corner of the E room or court of House U, Zygories | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries pg 186; plate XXI.3 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
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