| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2010 1 | |
| Title: | PINK LIMESTONE HUMAN HEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 2010 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Human head turned slightly to the left. Round face, deep drill holes for tear ducts of both eyes, for nostrils and for horizontal line separating lips with deeper drill hole on right side. Left ear deeply drilled and hair with several locks below it. Neck has shallow fold. Back surface flat with numerous diagonal gashes. Front surface well smoothed. | |
| Material: | Fine crystal pink limestone | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserving bottom half of head, small part of neck; surface scraped away over most of face. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. of face 0.072 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.083, W. 0.091, Th. 0.065 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Drilling similar to Roma statuette from Panagia Field dated between late 3rd and early 4th by L. Stirling (Hesperia 2008) | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context: | Nezi Field, context 6752, LOT 2010 029 | |
| Findspot Description: | N. 1032.85, E. 261.41, el. 83.25 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2010 4375 Image: digital 2010 4376 Basket: Nezi Field, context 6752 |
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