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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11157 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: EROS AND APHRODITE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11157 | |
| Description: | Terracotta hollow mouldmade Eros with a round head, rt arm bent with hand clutching mantle? Near neck, long torso, and rt leg twisting over lt. Frontal mould with plain rounded handmade back including third of round vent hole. | |
| Decoration: | Pink paint on lt side of head of Eros. | |
| Mythology: | Eros | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with lt pinkish gray core with few fine sparkling, few med-v. lg tabular angular white, rare med tabular angular black, and rare med spherical angular orange inclusions and few med platy angular and few med spherical angular void | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 7/2 (pinkish gray), Paint: 2.5YR 7/4 (light reddish brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving head, rt shoulder and rt half of body of Eros to knee, part of the back of Aphrodite broken across vent hole. Very heavily worn. Traces of paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F20 M CO | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.074, W. 0.048, Th. 0.006-0.012 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB232 B4 P146 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 004 20 Basket: NB232 B4 P146 |
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