Corinth Object: MF 1972 138 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 1972 138 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF SEATED OR SQUATTING FEMALE FIGURE (GROTESQUE?) | | Category Code: | | MF | | Year: | | 1972 | | Object Number: | | 138 | | Description: | | Handmade terracotta figurine of a squatting or seated female figure, possibly grotesque. Head smooth, with (short?) hair added in black paint. Low forehead with heavy eyebrows made of applied clay. Eyes deep-set but small and perhaps squinting. Nose large and rounded, but flat at tip (like pig snout). Mouth slightly parted with defined lips. Cleft chin. Ears large, long and rectangular, project sideways out from face but curl back toward head at tip. Entire facial expression appears leering or grimacing. Neck thick. Body nude, with large, pendulous breasts that taper to point. Arms hang by sides; right arm rests on right knee, which is pulled up due to figure's squatting posture. Right foot wide. Back smoothed but largely unmodelled except for slightly concave or in-curving back and large buttocks, which rests on ground between feet. Bottom of figurine flattened. Figurine solid. See MF-78-28 for similar, but moulded, head and hair. | | Decoration: | | Hair rendered by black paint. | | Material: | | Coarse very pale brown clay with frequent large to very large sub-rounded angular and spherical inclusions, frequent very small to small rounded spherical voids. | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head, upper left arm, upper torso, right arm to wrist, right leg, right half of lower torso. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.067 | | Area: | | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | | Context: | | NB574 B17 P30, LOT 1972 208 | | Site: | | Acrocorinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Notebook Page: NB 482, spread 73 (p. 137)
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