Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 10725 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: STANDING FEMALE WITH BIRD AND FRUIT | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 10725 | |
Description: | Terracotta solid mouldmade standing female with large wide flaring polos with slanted top, short rounded curls frame forehead, oblong face, prominent brow ridge, very large protruding rt eye, lt eye and cheek smeared flat, wide pointed nose, thin wide lips, thin neck, narrow sloping shoulders, rt arm held tight to side, bent at elbow with forearm held across breast holding a bird (short beak, small head, long neck, round chest, long conical body), lt arm held tight to side bent at elbow with forearm across belly, and lt hand bent up holding fruit (pomegranate?). Wears peplos with round neck, low curving overfold with straight edge across thighs then drooping down, long vertical folds fall from below chest to overfold, three curving sleeve folds fall from rt elbow to middle of forearm looping to lower overfold, long sleeve with three narrow folds falls from lt elbow to overfold, long vertical folds fall straight from below overfold to just above slightly flaring hem, and pooling over feet. Feet flat on projecting rectangular base. Frontal mould with large depression on back. Whole piece slightly concave. Similar to KT4-43 (Corinth XV.2 Class X p. 92 no. 19 pl. 15) but mould seems to have been recut slightly. Standing Kore with Dove and Fruit Type. | |
Attributes: | Polos bird fruit | |
Material: | Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare medium tabular angular white inclusions and few small spherical angular voids | |
Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Two joining pieces. Large scratch on polos. White slip. | |
Manufacture: | F02 F MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.116, W.0.031, Th. 0.005-0.016 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | 5th to 4th c. B.C. (Corinth Xv.2 Class X no. 19 Aphrodite Deposit) | |
Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
Context: | NB232 B5 P147, LOT 0867 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Images (11) Basket: NB232 B5 P147 |