Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 2000 18 | |
Title: | NEOLITHIC FIGURINE: TERRACOTTA FOOT | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Year: | 2000 | |
Object Number: | 18 | |
Description: | Human figure, bottom of left leg, circular in section, continues down to almost oval foot with incision all around its lower edge that seems to indicate sole of footwear. No rendering of toes or other details of foot. Flat bottom. Solid. See Theocharis, Neolithic Greece, 1973, "Fat lady of Chaironeia," fig. 35; Kosmopoulos, Prehistoric Inhabitation of Corinth, p. 50, fig. 26. | |
Decoration: | White paint covers whole of foot, trace of it even on undersurface; designs in red paint on white, indicating footwear: 3 vertical bands almost equally spaced around back half of leg, 2 horizontal lines circle proper front right half of ankle. a curved line between rt. and back vertical stripes. Red diagonal band on heel, 2nd extending from lt. vertical stripe down to toes, another stripe across base of toes on upper surface of foot, and one along rt. side of foot; red in incision for sole. For parallels, see above. | |
Material: | Coarse light brown clay with common large to very large brown and dark red angular spherical and tabular inclusions, fine sparkling inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Between 10YR 7/6 and 7.5YR 7/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Fragment, complete foot, small part of lower leg. Paint worn. | |
Manufacture: | F01 HM U | |
Dimensions Actual: | L00.063 (foot) W00.035 (foot) T00.016 (foot) D00.026 (leg) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.040 | |
Period: | Neolithic | |
Chronology: | Middle Neolithic | |
Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
Context: | NB926 B32 P86, LOT 2000 027 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014 Monument: Panaghia Villa Image: bw 2000 049 14 Image: digital 2013 0980 Image: digital 2013 0981 Basket: NB926 B32 P86 Notebook Page: NB 926, spread 48 (p. 87) |