Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 6025 | |
Title: | BONE FACE | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 6025 | |
Description: | Bone face with incised details. Broad nose extending down from forehead, wide mouth, big eyes. Hair or headpiece carved with cross-hatched lines. Back rough. Furniture applique? Resembles 8th-6th c. head scaraboids; cf. Perdrizet 1905, Fouilles des Delphes 5, fig. 100, p. 25; V. Karageorghis 1988, Blacks in Ancient Cypriot Art, figs. 5-6, p. 14-15; A.F. Gorton 1996, Mediterranean Scarabs, type XXXIV, e.g. nos. 15-16. | |
Material: | Bone. | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete. Tinged green. | |
Area: | South Basilica | |
Context: | NB154 P170 | |
Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 962 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Basilica Basket: NB154 P170 Notebook Page: NB 154, spread 93 (pp. 170 - 171) |