Corinth Object: V 99
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   V 99
Title:   VOTIVE HEAD
Category:   Votive
Category Code:   V
Object Number:   99
Description:   Mouldmade female head and neck, neck terminates in flange so head can stand. Hollow with hole W. ca. 0.025 in top of back of head. Oval face; long straight nose, punch holes for nostrils, groove for nostrils on outside; lozenge shape eye with heavy ridge for lids, shallow groove above upper lid; ridge for eyebrows. Teardrop earrings attached to hair where ears would be. Hair added clay with grooves for texture and different forms of styling. Hair combed back, frames face to ears; knotted braid at center which joins a braid going around head, hair at back goes toward back following shape of head.
Decoration:   White sizing, red paint. Red paint in hair.
Material:   Fine buff to orange clay.
Condition:   Complete or intact. Complete; approximately 25 joining fragments, mended, RIP. Parts of flange, neck, and right earring, lower lip, left eye RIP. Several fragments of hair missing.
Manufacture:   F28 F CO
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.243
Area:   Asklepieion
Findspot Description:   Asklepieion
Bibliography:   Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 3, p. 119
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951
Monument: Asklepieion
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