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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11480 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11480 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of five to six dancers moving in circle with arms joined around standing central flutist. Dancer has broad short neck curving into small flat strips as arms to join with dancers, arms rectangular in section, flattened cylindrical chest and body curving backward. Both bodies of dancers flare into two pinched splayed feet 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). | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow and pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare medium tabular angular red inclusions and rare medium to large spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) and 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving one dancer from neck to base and part of lt arm, feet of another dancer, indentations for two more dancers and flutist and three-quarters of base. Encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of base 0.006, Th. of body 0.011 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.072 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.095 | |
| 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 early visit to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 010 32 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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