Corinth Object: MF 2000 18
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)