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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KH 58 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA MOLD OF A LARGE RECLINING FIGURE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KH | | Object Number: | | 58 | | Description: | | Mould for a draped, reclining, male figure, supporting upper body with bent left arm. Left elbow rests on double cushion and left hand holds a kantharos by the handle. Right arm extended along side. Short, cropped hair, worn in scallops over the forehead. Drapery wrapped acround body from waist to feet and drawn across left arm, with end hanging in front of couch. Knees slightly bent. Details blurred. Similar to KH 59 (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, cat. 60), also from Deposit 3. May have produced KT 19-60 (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. XIV, 13) from the Circular South Shrine and KT 19-61 from the Circle Deposit. Handmade from model. Possibly overfired. | | Decoration: | | Undecorated. | | Material: | | Fine, pale yellow clay with few fine, rounded, pink inclusions and rare medium voids | | Munsell Color: | | 5Y 8/3 (pale yellow) | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Four joining frgts preserving most of figure, except lower left corner and small fragments along joins elsewhere | | Manufacture: | | F06 M HM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 37, p. 105) | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB114 P22 | | Provenance: | | Corinth. | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Northwest Room, Deposit 3. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, cat. 59 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 16 (pp. 22 - 23)
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