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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 249 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 249 | | Description: | | Modelled in a rude primitive style. The head is flat on top and almost triangular in shape, as seen from above; its back is rounded off and its front pinched out to form a long projecting face and nose. The neck is relatively long; below it an irregular protuberance on each side indicates no doubt the arms, the right being larger than the left. No legs are distinguished; the lower part of the figurine is merely a solid stem which widens toward the bottom to rest on a slightly hollowed base. No attempt is made to show the breasts, and there is no indication of sex. But a narrow strip of clay, no missing, seems originally to have been applied on the back, extending from the top of the head to the middle of the back, cleraly a plastic rendering of a long braid of hair; and it accordingly seems certain that the intention was to represent a female figurine. (Blegen Zygouries, 185) | | Decoration: | | The head is finished with more attention than the rest of the body, details being delineated in a glaze paint in the style of EH patterened ware. The paint is mainly reddish brown in color, but exhibits the tendency toward mottling so common in the pottery of the period. The eyes are huge and almond shaped, each having a tiny pupil marked by a dot. A series of short parallel strokes above each eye, continued on the flat top of the head, may be meant to depict eyelashes or eyebrows. The hair is painted on the top of the head and down the back, the plastic braid having also apparently been coated with glaze. The paint now shows very little lustre, but it has the crackled surface typical of Early Helladic glaze badly deteriorated. (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 185) | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Plastic braid missing | | Dimensions Actual: | | H: 0.075 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Chronology: | | Middle stage of EH period | | Findspot Description: | | Under floor of the House of the Snailshells, Zygouries | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries 185-186 and plate XXI.1 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
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