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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11486 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11486 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around flutist standing in center. Dancer has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, small semi-circular face, short neck, flattened chest, flat strip arms, upper body tilted outward slightly, and body oval in section. 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. Red paint on head, chest and horizontal band across front of neck. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow and pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) and 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Paint: 10R 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving dancer from head to just above base with start of rt arm. Traces of white slip and paint. Discolored and encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.011 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.064 | |
| 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 B2 P143, LOT 0864 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 005 33 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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