| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1954 3 | |
| Title: | PLASTIC VASE: HUMAN FIGURE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1954 | |
| Object Number: | 3 | |
| Description: | Plastic vase in form of human with frontal head, arms bent across chest, hands raised and clasped below neck. Wears low polos, pierced at top for pour hole; shoulder-length hair, parted over forehead and pulled to ears. Suspension holes in hair above shoulders. Long face, widest at eyes, tapering to chin. Blob-eyes, wide nose, thick llips, faint rendering of lt. ear. Body nearly spherical in profile. Arms applied solidly against hollow wheelmade body. Hands incised to show clasped fingers. Fault in mould, producing faint crease in forehead; sides of face smeared. | |
| Decoration: | Purplish-black paint over polos and hair' dilute glaze for eyebrowns, eyelids; body covered with fine dots; hands purplish-black. | |
| Material: | Fine clay fired pale grayish yellow with one coarse popped lime inclusion. | |
| Munsell Color: | Ca. 2.5Y 7/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving upper half of body to top of polos; missing much of back, most of left forearm; glaze on hair worn. | |
| Manufacture: | MW | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.020 (head) W00.012 (face at eyes) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.065 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | First half 6th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB164 P155 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck, Hesperia 1955 P151 Pl. 60.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 24:2, 1955 Monument: Temple Hill Image: bw 8771 Image: bw 2001 002 18 Basket: NB164 P155 Notebook Page: NB 164, spread 84 (pp. 155 - 156) |
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