Corinth Object: C 1962 271 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1962 271 | | Title: | | PROTOME HEAD (PYXIS?) | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1962 | | Object Number: | | 271 | | Description: | | Small, tapering face with small eyes and pronounced lids, triangular nose, horizontal mouth. Receding waves on brow, stepped wig, grooves between steps continuted to sides of face. Fillet and polos. Two pointed projections for arms. Two holes pierce head on either side of face, seven holes top of polos pierced down to below brim of polos in back. Pink/red slip. Face shape similar to C-62-283 and R: 25, lot 1953 | | Decoration: | | Black on polos, hair, eyelids, brows, and necklace. | | Material: | | Fine very pale brown clay with rare medium tan and maroon inclusions | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Damage to nose, broken away below chest. | | Manufacture: | | CO | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.06, H. of face 0.015 | | Period: | | Late Corinthian | | Chronology: | | Late Corinthian I based on Pemberton 1989 | | Area: | | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | | Context: | | NB250 B6 P64, LOT 1985 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Pemberton 1989, Corinth 18.1, cat. 626 | | Site: | | Acrocorinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Pemberton, Corinth 18:1, 1989
Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Basket: NB250 B6 P64
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