| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1440 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: FEMALE HEAD | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 1440 | |
| Description: | Female figurine with head turned slightly to proper rt. Wears low stephane with serrated edge; as well as a fillet to bind hair. Hair gathered away from central part, rolled back from face, with pig-tail hanging down back of neck, surface largely broken away. Long oval face with triangular forehead, small horizontal eyes deeply set, straight nose, small mouth, round chin. Long neck with two Venus creases. | |
| Material: | Fine clay from yellowish tan to pinkish tan, | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head, tenon; complete except for edge of nose, part of staphane. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.084 | |
| Findspot Description: | New Hotel (now Byzantine Ephoreia), grid 8a, 2.50 m. October 30, 1930 NB 115 p. 69 no. 43 | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 401 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Davidson, Corinth 12, 1952 Image: bw 3768 Image: bw 3950 Notebook Page: NB 115, spread 40 (pp. 69 - 70) |
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