Corinth Object: MF 10725
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 10725
Title:   TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: STANDING FEMALE WITH BIRD AND FRUIT
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   10725
Description:   Terracotta solid mouldmade standing female with large wide flaring polos with slanted top, short rounded curls frame forehead, oblong face, prominent brow ridge, very large protruding rt eye, lt eye and cheek smeared flat, wide pointed nose, thin wide lips, thin neck, narrow sloping shoulders, rt arm held tight to side, bent at elbow with forearm held across breast holding a bird (short beak, small head, long neck, round chest, long conical body), lt arm held tight to side bent at elbow with forearm across belly, and lt hand bent up holding fruit (pomegranate?). Wears peplos with round neck, low curving overfold with straight edge across thighs then drooping down, long vertical folds fall from below chest to overfold, three curving sleeve folds fall from rt elbow to middle of forearm looping to lower overfold, long sleeve with three narrow folds falls from lt elbow to overfold, long vertical folds fall straight from below overfold to just above slightly flaring hem, and pooling over feet. Feet flat on projecting rectangular base. Frontal mould with large depression on back. Whole piece slightly concave. Similar to KT4-43 (Corinth XV.2 Class X p. 92 no. 19 pl. 15) but mould seems to have been recut slightly. Standing Kore with Dove and Fruit Type.
Attributes:   Polos bird fruit
Material:   Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare medium tabular angular white inclusions and few small spherical angular voids
Munsell Color:   Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink)
Condition:   Complete or intact. Two joining pieces. Large scratch on polos. White slip.
Manufacture:   F02 F MM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.116, W.0.031, Th. 0.005-0.016
Period:   Classical
Chronology:   5th to 4th c. B.C. (Corinth Xv.2 Class X no. 19 Aphrodite Deposit)
Area:   Kokkinovrysi
Context:   NB232 B5 P147, LOT 0867
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Kokkinovrysi
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Kokkinovrysi
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Basket: NB232 B5 P147