| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 112 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE HEAD | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 112 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade female head and neck, neck terminates in flange, flange enables head to stand. Hollow. Short thick neck. Round face. Lips are full and parted with wide groove and hole in corner. Long straight narrow nose. Shallow openings for nostrils. Eyes not similar; almond shape, shallow set; small lower lid with groove above which undercuts the lid; ridge for eyebrow. Lobe of right ear pierced with hole and punch hole for opening of ear. Hair added clay with incision for hairs and styling. Hair frames face to ear level, combed back away from face, high knot in middle of front, behind braid around head, in back hair combed back following shape of head. | |
| Decoration: | White sizing, red paint. Red paint in hair. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete; approximately 17 joining fragments; hair missing, RIP; end of left ear lobe broken. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 F MM | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 2, p. 119 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion |
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