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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 10738 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: BIRD | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 10738 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade perching dove with wide short pointed beak, eye ridge, small head, very long neck, short wide spread pointed feet, and rectangular body narrowing towards flaring tail. Similar to KT41-10 and KT41-11 (Corinth XV.2 Class XXVII Middle Group p. 186 no. 8 pl. 42). | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling and rare fine platy angular black inclusions and few small to very large tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) and 7.5YR 7/8 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single piece missing tail. Small chip on rt side of beak. Discolored. | |
| Manufacture: | F17 U HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.043, W. 0.024, Th. 0.004-0.015 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.047 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | late 6th to 5th c B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class XXVII no.8 Aphrodite Deposit) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB232 B6 P150, LOT 0868 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Images (4) Basket: NB232 B6 P150 |
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