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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 14019 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 14019 | | Description: | | Figurine of draped standing female comic actor. Figure stands with bent left arm jutting outwards, resting hand on hip, bent, raised right arm lifts himation from head just above ear. Top of head (H. 0.016) veiled with himation. Slightly distended belly, unworked, slightly concave back. Draped in long himation used as veil, chiton underneath. Solid. Mouldmade with some tooling. Similar to KT 5-20 (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 20), MF-14022 (Merker 2000, Corinth 18.4, cat. H358), and MF-14025 (Merker 2000, Corinth 18.4, cat. H359). Also similar to Athens 6070 (1198; P-304), Athens 5850, London 1951.7-31.1, and Amsterdam 261. Mask V (MMC 3rd ed.). | | Decoration: | | White slip. | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow clay with very rare small spherical sub-rounded brown inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Preserved head to waist; missing legs and feet. Chipped on belly and edges around back. Encrustation in crevices, fairly worn at belly. Traces of white slip all over. | | Manufacture: | | F08 F CO | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | based on style | | Area: | | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | | Context: | | NB295 B2 P34 | | | | NB295 B1 P15 | | | | NB295 B2 P118 | | | | NB295 B1 P7 | | | | NB295 B1 P11 | | | | NB295 B1 P87 | | | | NB295 B3 P107 | | | | NB295 B1 P34 | | | | NB295 B1 P38 | | | | NB295 B1 P21 | | | | NB295 B1 P49 | | | | NB295 B2 P111 | | | | NB295 B2 P63, LOT 3206 | | | | LOT 3206 | | Bibliography: | | Merker 2000, Corinth 18.4, cat. H357 | | Site: | | Acrocorinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Merker, Corinth 18:4, 2000
Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
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