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| Part of conical tip of unguentarium preserved.
Fine, hard orange-pink clay, with black core; buff slip; a streak of brownish-red glaze down one side shows the upper body was glazed.
Small roughly circular ... Late Roman |
| Broken away behind and at neck. Nose badly damaged; mouth, chin and eyes slightly.
Female head, rather more than life-size, with hair parted at center. A little way back is a sunken band with small holes ... 9 April 1935 |
| Projecting rim, flat and reserved on top. Inside, alternating glazed and reserved bands, glazed broader and more streaked toward the middle of the pot than at the top where the surface has been polished ... 22 February -7 April 1935, 22 May 1937 |
| Fragment a) Seated draped figure, the arms held up to the sides of the head in a gesture of lamentation.
On the back of the head, painted locks; the nose, although it is broken off with the top of the ... 8 April 1935 |
| Broken away all around.
Signed.
For the same signature see T 603 and probably also T 471.
ADDENDA: Incised in wet clay the letters: P O
Φ
Late Roman.
Destruction fill of late Roman Building. Leica ... 9 April 1935 |
| First interpretation: head of figurine.
The figure wears a high ornamental headdress. Pierced eyes. The curiously distored mouth suggests a mask of some sort.
Buff clay, thin purple red wash. Red earth ... 9 April 1935 |
| On bottom, inside concentric grooves, part of a signature.
Red clay and glaze.
Type XXVIII of Corinth collection.
Cf. Corinth IV, ii, pp. 102-114, nos. 786-1412, pls. XIII-XIX.
ADDENDA: The signature ... 4th. century A.D. |
| Vertical loop handle and top of nozzle missing.
Upper walls slope in to the flat narrow rim which has no visible decoration; possibly one had shallow herringbone. Two large filling holes; broad channel ... 9 April 1935 |
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