Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 2004 12 | |
Title: | MOLDMADE TERRACOTTA FIGURINE | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Year: | 2004 | |
Object Number: | 12 | |
Description: | Terracotta female standing figurine wearing a polos, with a coil attached on top. Holds out offerings with both hands, possibly a bird on her right, but unidentifiable (fruit?) on the other. Hair is stylized and thick in manner of Daedalic figurines, falling at sides of faces. Facial features not distinguished. Peplos appears simply rendered with minimal folds, with overfold to waist, center plain, pleat falls on sides of body. Mouldmade on the front, handmade on the back. Similar but not identical to Corinth XVIII.4, p. 83, C9, pl. 1 (MF 10536); XII.2, p. 30, no. 94, pl. 6; XV.2, Class X. | |
Decoration: | Pink slip over all, white slip over all of body in the front and face, red polos, black paint on hair. | |
Material: | Fine, pink clay with rare fine black, red, and white inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Core: 5YR 6/8 (pink), slip: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining fragments preserving all of head and most of body, except the bottom of peplos.. Some chips missing at break around shoulders and back of polos. Very worn. Red and black paint and white slip preserved in parts. | |
Manufacture: | F01 F CO Standing | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. of head 0.021, W. of shoulders 0.022 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.079 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | 5th-4th c. B.C. | |
Area: | Panaghia south | |
Context: | NB962 B80 P152, LOT 2004 035 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2005 012 32a Basket: NB962 B80 P152 |