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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11479 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11479 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four to five dancers moving in circle with arms joined around standing central flutist. Dancer has strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, small semi-circular face, broad short neck curving into flat strips as arms to join with dancers, rt arm round in section, lt arm oval in section, flattened chest, cylindrical body tilted outward slightly , flaring into two pinched splayed feet twisted to lt attaching to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Similar 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: | White slip overall. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare small tabular angular white inclusions and rare medium tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/3 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining fragments preserving single dancer missing arms, two-thirds of base, and grooves for another dancer and flutist. Traces of white slip. Encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of base 0.013, Th. of body 0.003-0.005 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | H. 0.084, Diam. 0.100 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class II 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 from earlier visit to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 010 20 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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