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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11473 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11473 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four dancers moving in circle with arms joined around flutist standing in center. Figures all have flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos and clay overfold from back to front as head. Dancer has semi-circular face, broad short neck, flattened chest, long flat strips as arms, joining dancers, rt arm higher than lt, upper body tilted outward slightly, body oval in section flaring as attaches to base. Flute player has additional clay strip over face (mouth?) covering part of clay rolls of short double flute, rt flute stretched straight to rt hand, lt flute overlaps bottom of polos curving under face strip and out and lt to lt hand, flat strips of arms attached at shoulder, bent and stretched forward with rounded hands grasping flutes, and cylindrical body flaring as attaches almost seamlessly to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints on faces and bodies of figures. Similar in size and style to KT2-11 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 8 pl. 4) and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | Smoothed in pale brown slip and then white slip. | |
| Attributes: | polos, flute | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling inclusions and rare small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Slip: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four joining pieces preserving one dancer, stumps of two others, flutist, and most of base. Large hole in center of base. Top of polos broken on dancer. Traces of slip and white slip. Slightly encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.078, Th. of base 0.005, Th. of body 0.013 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | H. 0.093 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class no. 8 Shrine of Double Stele 1st half of 4th c. B.C.) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB232 B1 P143, LOT 0863 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Possibly picked up from earlier visits to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 013 20 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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