| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 9061 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: NUDE MALE EROS? | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 9061 | |
| Description: | Terracotta mouldmade hollow male (poss. Eros) with narrow shoulders, small pectoral muscles, narrow waist, and slightly flaring hips. Arm attachment oval in section. Clay protusions at shoulder blades possibly for wings. Handmade flattened back. Torso similar to a doll as MF-10468 (Corinth XVIII.4, p. 58-60, 102 no. C176 pl.16) and Eros as an ephebe Type (LIMC Eros no. 34e pl. 611). | |
| Decoration: | White slip covered all of figure. Yellow paint on upper chest near neck. Red paint on torso and back. | |
| Mythology: | EROS | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few large tabular rounded black, few small to very large spherical rounded white, few tabular angular mudstone, and few fine sparkling inclusions and few small platy rounded voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 5YR 7/8 (reddish yellow), Paint: 5Y 8/8 (yellow) and 2.5YR 5/6 (red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving base of neck, shoulders, and torso. Broken wing? attachments. Covered in white slip with traces of paint. Surface worn and flaking. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 M CO | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.045, Th. 0.013, W. of shoulders 0.034 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | 2nd c. B.C. (LIMC Eros ) or late 3rd to early 2nd c. B.C. based on C47-304 SAH Rhodian (VG #Co 235) or 240-217 B.C. based on an AR coin of Roman Republic found in well XVI | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB195 P83 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Basket: NB195 P83 |
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