Collection: | | Corinth |
Type: | | Object |
Name: | | MF 2274 |
Title: | | TERRACOTTA MASK |
Category Code: | | MF |
Object Number: | | 2274 |
Description: | | Mask or plaque of grotesque face with heavily wrinkled nose, drooping mustache, and sneering mouth. Nostrils unpierced, mouth closed. |
Decoration: | | Grayish-white slip |
Material: | | Soft yellowish-pink clay with frequent small oblong inclusions. |
Munsell Color: | | 7,5 YR 7/6 |
Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving nose and half of mouth; broken on all sides. Hole worn in surface of lip. Traces of grayish-white slip or debris at nostrils. |
Manufacture: | | F23 M MM |
Period: | | 3rd c. A.C. |
Chronology: | | Determined by deposit index based on coins and lamps |
Area: | | New Hotel Byzantine Ephoreia |
Context: | | New Hotel Byzantine Ephoreia |
Findspot Description: | | "New Hotel" Well A (Well 1930-11) |
Site: | | Corinth |
City: | | Ancient Corinth |
Country: | | Greece |
References: | | Monument: New Hotel Byzantine Ephoreia
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