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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11190 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: STANDING FEMALE WITH BIRD AND FRUIT | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11190 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid mouldmade standing female with wide tall flaring polos with slanted concave top, short band of hair frames forehead, oblong face, raised almond lt eye, thin lips, thin neck, narrow sloping shoulders, rt arm held tight to side, bent at elbow with forearm held across breast holding a bird (thin beak, small head, wide neck, round chest, long rectangular body), lt arm held tight to side bent at elbow with forearm across belly, lt hand bent up holding round fruit (pomegranate?), and thumb and fingers defined on both hands. Wears peplos with long vertical folds falling from waist down, four sleeve folds radiating from rt elbow droop down then up to middle of forearm, sleeve droops from lt elbow with vertical folds. Frontal mould with large depression on back. Similar to and possibly same mould as KT4-43 (Corinth XV.2 Class X p. 92 no. 19 pl. 15). Standing Kore with Dove and Fruit Type. | |
| Decoration: | Blue paint against dove's neck and between fingers of rt hand. | |
| Attributes: | Polos, dove, fruit | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling, rare small tabular angular white, and rare medium tabular angular orange inclusions and rare medium tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving head to lt waist and rt upper thigh. Missing rt side of face and chip from lt upper arm. Surface covered in hairline fractures. Traces of white slip and paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F02 F MM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.088, W. 0.036, Th. 0.005-0.015 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 5th to 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class X no. 19 Aphrodite Deposit) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB247 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | NB 251 P14 for lot. | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 005 11 Basket: NB247 |
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