| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 1024 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF DRAPED FEMALE FIGURE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 1024 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade terracotta figurine of female figure wearing Ionic chiton falling in small, straight, regular folds. Over chiton is himation hanging diagonally from right shoulder, perhaps held on right side. Both arms held tightly by side, belt at elbows with lower arms extended forward. Small vertical circular hole (diam. 0.002m) pierced left shoulder. Back rounded but unmodelled. Projection from back of neck may be hair. Figurine hollow with large rectangular vent. Smears of fingerprints inside. Figurine seems to be imitation of archaic kore type, of somewhat later period, according to Corinth 12. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with rare small rounded spherical voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of neck, torso, parts of arms. | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | late? | |
| Findspot Description: | Miscellaneous Finds, Corinth. Found May 9, 1902 (?). | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 106. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 3771 |
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