Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 2008 5 | |
Title: | PLASTIC HEAD FROM BYZANTINE PITCHER | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 2008 | |
Object Number: | 5 | |
Description: | Plastic head detached from vessel. Man wearing hat with thick brim; spherical head on wide cylindrical hollow neck; pierced disks of added clay for eyes set in circular depressions, added oblong strips of clay for lips; groove separates lips from nose; pierced nostrils; long flat projection for beard with rounded edge and deeply incised parallel lines denoting the hairs. | |
Material: | Coarse, very pale brown clay, fired reddish yellow at core, with frequent medium to very large spherical angular grog, tabular angular mudstone, spherical rounded white lime inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown), Core: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving male head broken at neck. Nose and part of brim of hat broken. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.033 | |
Weight Description: | 0.01 | |
Weight: | 0.01 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Context: | Nezi Field, context 5325, LOT 2008 080 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: bw 2008 070 33 Basket: Nezi Field, context 5325 |