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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 2008 5 | | Title: | | PLASTIC HEAD FROM BYZANTINE PITCHER | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 2008 | | Object Number: | | 5 | | Description: | | Plastic head detached from vessel. Man wearing hat with thick brim; spherical head on wide cylindrical hollow neck; pierced disks of added clay for eyes set in circular depressions, added oblong strips of clay for lips; groove separates lips from nose; pierced nostrils; long flat projection for beard with rounded edge and deeply incised parallel lines denoting the hairs. | | Material: | | Coarse, very pale brown clay, fired reddish yellow at core, with frequent medium to very large spherical angular grog, tabular angular mudstone, spherical rounded white lime inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | Surface: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown), Core: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving male head broken at neck. Nose and part of brim of hat broken. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.033 | | Weight Description: | | 0.01 | | Weight: | | 0.01 | | Period: | | Byzantine | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context: | | Nezi Field, context 5325, LOT 2008 080 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Nezi Field
Image: bw 2008 070 33
Basket: Nezi Field, context 5325
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