Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 11128 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: FEMALE WITH POLOS | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 11128 | |
Description: | Terracotta solid mouldmade female wearing wide square polos with finger depressed convex top, short band of hair frames forehead with straight incised line radiating from forehead, long flat locks falling to shoulders, hair incised in straight horizontal lines, small rectangular face, lower at rt side of jaw, large round bulbous eyes, wide nose smeared on rt side into lips, and wide neck. Frontal mould. Similar to KT9-65. Shape seems similar to small female protomes but face too small and no hole for suspension but head of piece is too large for standing or seated Kore. | |
Attributes: | Polos | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling, few small tabular angular white, and rare small spherical angular black inclusions and rare large spherical rounded and rare small tabular angular voids | |
Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving head from polos to neck. Heavily worn and pitted especially on face. | |
Manufacture: | F01 F MM | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.036, W. 0.026, Th. 0.005-0.015 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | 5th c. B.C.? Stylistically | |
Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
Context: | NB232 B2 P143, LOT 0864 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 004 08 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |