| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 9314 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: FEMALE WITH POLOS AND VEIL | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 9314 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid mouldmade female figurine wearing a polos with slightly flaring rim. Hair falls to shoulders. Oblong face, close set eyes, long nose, thin lips, long chin. Back roughly smoothed. Similar to MF-1049, and the Kore with Polos and Veil Type MF-1866 and MF-4224 (Corinth XII, p. 43 no. 239-240 pl. 20). | |
| Decoration: | White slip on face, polos and back of head . Red paint on hair and polos. Gray paint on face. | |
| Attributes: | polos, veil | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few medium to large tabular rounded white, frequent small tabular rounded black, and rare fine sparkling inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) Core: 5YR 5/6 (yellowish red) Paint: 10R 4/6 (red) and 2.5YR 7/1 (light reddish gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving polos to neck. Worn and pitted surface. Traces of white slip throughout with red and blue paint preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 F MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. of head 0.012, H. of polos 0.005 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.029 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Mid to late 3rd c. B.C. stylistically (Corinth XII no. 239-240, Deposit VI) or 178-176 B.C. 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 B25 P294 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Basket: NB200 B25 P294 Notebook Page: NB 200, spread 52 (pp. 294 - 295) Notebook Page: NB 200, spread 75 (pp. 339 - 340) |
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