Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 73 | |
Title: | VOTIVE PAINTED HEAD WITH HAIR | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 73 | |
Description: | Mouldmade hollow head of youth. Punch hole for nostril inside nose and groove outside; nose twisted slightly to right. Eye has heavy lids. Ear set at angle to face, added to clay on top of hair. Hair made with folded ribbons of clay; grooves for hair along top of brow. Perhaps profile view only. | |
Decoration: | White slip on face with yellow paint, red paint on hair. | |
Material: | Fine pale orange to orange clay. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 to 2.5YR 6/8 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving right side of face from nose up and part of hair; broken all around; surface generally well-preserved, if portions flaked off. | |
Manufacture: | F28 U CO | |
Dimensions Actual: | L. of eye 0.019, H. of ear 0.030 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.115, Th. 0.013-0.030, W. 0.096 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB122 P89, LOT 1931 034 | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit IV, Kriebardi Trench 1931 | |
Bibliography: | Rosebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 5, p. 119 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 2952 Basket: NB122 P89 |