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Fabric Category Impasto
Object Type Vessel
Vessel Form Form unspecified
Year Excavated 1970
Fragment Noted true
Object Type (notes) Head, Vessel Fragment
Size Max. Pres. Height 0.050 m, Max. Pres. Width (through hair) 0.047 m (through chin 0.024 m), Pres. Thickness 0.021-0.030 m, through nose 0.026 m
Condition Back broken away from vessel. Broken on bottom and sides. Face chipped. Surface worn.
Description Heavy human head apparently broken from a large vessel. Roughly triangular, with thick mass of hair running across top of head and flaring outward to level of cheeks, where it is broken off. Eyebrows and large, horizontally placed almond-shaped eyes are executed in thin ridges underlined with grooves. Nose is small, centered and triangular. Mouth is small and appears pursed, being a rounded protrusion between two vertical lines running from corners of nose to bottom corner of mouth. Cheeks are relatively flat.
Fabric Description Impasto, Buccheroid, fired black exterior, dark red-brown interior
Has note
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Object Master Grid
EW (x) NS (y) Depth (z) Elev. (z)
135.211 27.329
Object Coordinate Notes Stratum A
Local Grid (X) (Note) GG
Local Grid (Y) 7
Suggested Citation

Anthony Tuck. (2012) "PC 19700076 from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Civitate A/Civitate A 28/1970, ID:195". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2012-12-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/af5b916f-91c4-4506-e267-6938d445c9f4> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/r2p24/pc_19700076

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