| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 9311 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FEMALE DOLL | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 9311 | |
| Description: | Terracotta mouldmade hollow seated doll, female, nude. Pear-shaped body with straight back, small upper torso with full breasts, wide hips, rounded belly with depression for belly button, big thighs, and large buttocks. Legs and feet set together, bent at knees, bottom of feet flat. Two circular holes present on side of chest for attachment of separate arms. Rectangular vent hole in back. Similar to MF-2751, MF-2753, and MF-2754 (Corinth XII, p. 41 no. 224-226 pl. 19), and possible same mould as MF-2752, similar size to MF-11406 and Seated Doll Type (Hesperia XLIII p. 211-12, 240 no. 80 pl. 36). | |
| Decoration: | Traces of white slip are preserved all over the doll. All burnished and polished. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few medium tabular rounded white, frequent fine tabular angular black, few medium platy angular mudstone, and rare fine sparkling inclusions and few large tabular rounded and common small platy angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: Between 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) and 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 6/3 (light brown) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Several joining pieces preserving chest to feet with large pieces missing throughout. RIP. | |
| Manufacture: | F21 F MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.005 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | H. 0.185, W. of shoulders 0.047, W. of hips 0.056 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | 4th decade of 3rd c. B.C. stylistically (Hesperia XLIII no. 80) or 178-176 based on C48-130 SAH Rhodian (Fink) or 181-173 B.C. based on coin of Cleopatra I in Well XIX | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB200 B33 P306 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia XVIII,1949 pl. 17, 22 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: bw 6274 Basket: NB200 B33 P306 Notebook Page: NB 200, spread 58 (pp. 306 - 307) Notebook Page: NB 200, spread 75 (pp. 339 - 340) |
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