Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 9101 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA MASK | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 9101 | |
Description: | Terracotta mouldmade mask with two deep wrinkles on forehead, thick wide eyebrow ridge, defined upper rt. Lid, round hole for iris, large nose. Concave back. Similar to MF-13485, MF81-7, MF-5629 (Corinth XII, p.60 no. 442 pl. 41) and Comic Mask "Leading Slave" (Athenian Agora VI, p. 60 no. 563 pl. 13). | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few medium tabular rounded white, rare small platy rounded black, rare small tabular rounded red, and frequent fine sparkling inclusions and frequent large tabular rounded and common small platy rounded voids | |
Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of forehead and right side of face, broken across right eye and nose. | |
Manufacture: | F23 M MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.008 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.058, W. 0.083 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Chronology: | 1st c. to 3rd c. A.C. stylistically (Corinth XII, no. 442 and Agora VI no. 563) | |
Area: | South Stoa | |
Context: | NB140 P6 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Stoa Basket: NB140 P6 Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 9 (pp. 6 - 7) |