| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 8072 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: FEMALE WITH POLOS | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 8072 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid mouldmade female figurine wears pinched polos with himation draping down covering head, sausage curls are exposed at forehead and along face. Oblong face, curving brow over large bulbous protruding eyes, long nose, large lips, slighlty smiling, square jaw, broad flat neck curving outward to shoulders. A thick incised line on edge of shoulder suggests a necklace. Handmade flattened back. Seems to be archaizing. Similar to MF 70-39, MF-2524 (Corinth XII, p. 29 no. 80 pl. 5) and KT3-32 (Corinth XV.2, Class VIII p.71 no. 32 pl.11). | |
| Attributes: | polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay fired light brown at core with rare medium platy angular mudstone, few fine-medium tabular angular black, rare small tabular angular white, and rare fine sparkling inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 6/4 (light brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving head, broken below neck. Very worn surface. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 F CO | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. of head 0.015, W. of head 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.034 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 6th to second half of 5th c. BC stylistically (Corinth XV.2 Class VIII) | |
| Area: | South Stoa west | |
| Context: | NB178 P114 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa west Image: color 0092 Basket: NB178 P114 Notebook Page: NB 178, spread 65 (pp. 114 - 115) |
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