| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 8912 | |
| Title: | MOULMADE FIGURINE: ARCHAIC FEMALE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 8912 | |
| Description: | Solid figurine, mouldmade at least to bust; originally wore polos, traces of which on top of head. Shoulder-length hair parted in center, 2 long parallel waves on either side curling back to ears, rest falls in smooth mass in front and back, with a single lock slightly incised from rest framing face. Low forehead crossed by fillet that continues behind ears. Extremely long narrow face; features superficial. 2 arched ridges for brows meeting in center; lt. eye scarcely rendered; mouth straight, upper lip thick, heavy chin. Possibly wearing collar, or garment shown at neck; shoulders turn down below hair; head fit into separately made body. Hole in back modern, for mounting. | |
| Decoration: | Red paint on garment. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay, fired to slightly yellower and redder where thickest. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., head, shoulders; face battered, missing most of eyes, all of nose. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 F MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.0456 (head) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.082 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 7th c. or early 6th BC | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB194 P114 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: bw 5986 Basket: NB194 P114 Notebook Page: NB 194, spread 61 (pp. 113 - 114) |
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