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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11159 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: STANDING FEMALE WITH BIRD AND FRUIT | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11159 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid mouldmade standing female with short flaring polos with slanted top, short band of hair frames forehead, oval face, thin long nose with rounded tip, thin neck, broad sloping shoulders, rt arm held tight to side, bent at elbow with forearm held across breast holding a bird (short pointed beak, small head, short wide neck, round chest, long conical body), lt arm held tight to side bent at elbow with forearm across belly, lt hand bent up holding fruit with stem (pomegranate?), thumb and fingers deliniated on both hands. Wears peplos with low overfold with straight edge across thighs then drooping down at sides, long vertical folds fall from waist to overfold, looping sleeve drapes from rt elbow to middle of forearm with long narrow folds falling to lower overfold, long vertical folds fall straight from below overfold, peplos flares slightly at hem and pools over part of feet. Feet flat on projecting rectangular base. Frontal mould with large depression on back. Similar to KT4-43 (Corinth XV.2 Class X p. 92 no. 19 pl. 15). Standing Kore with Dove and Fruit Type. | |
| Attributes: | Polos dove fruit | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with frequent fine sparkling, few medium to very large tabular angular white, and rare small platy angular red inclusions and few medium to large tabular angular and few small spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Four joining pieces missing triangular chunk on lt side, lt foot, and part of lt side of base. Heavily worn and chipped. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F02 F MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.119, W. 0.034, Th. 0.007-0.015 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 5th to 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class X no. 19 Aphrodite Deposit) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB232 B6 P150, LOT 0868 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Images (6) Basket: NB232 B6 P150 |
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