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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 1035 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF SQUATTING MALE FIGURE PLAYING PIPES | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 1035 | | Description: | | Mouldmade terracotta figurine of squatting male figure playing double flutes or double pipes. Body grotesque. Shoulders narrow and sloping. Arms tight to side, bent across upper abdomen, with hands holding one segment each of pipes. Elbows rest on knees. Complete set of male genitals rests on ground. Entire figure rests on low circular base, which is painted black. Body and pipes of figurine painted red; beard painted black. Back of figurine unmodelled but rounded. Figurine hollow through neck. Likely from same mould as MF-1034; KT22-4. | | Decoration: | | Red paint on body, pipes. Black paint on beard. Base painted black. | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow clay with frequent large sub-rounded spherical inclusions | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Single frgt., missing head and right shoulder. Red paint preserved on body, pipes; black paint preserved on very bottom tip of beard, base. | | Period: | | 5th c. B.C. | | Area: | | Peribolos of Apollo | | Context: | | NB49 P118 | | Bibliography: | | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 195; cited in Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, p. 143, note 10; Schmalig Kabirion V, n. 132. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Peribolos of Apollo
Notebook Page: NB 49, spread 40 (pp. 117 - 118)
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