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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11488 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11488 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of five dancers moving in circle with arms joined around flutist standing in center. Each dancer has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, large semi-circular face, broad curving short neck, flattened chest, short flat strips as arms, visible separate arms pinched together, upper body of one and whole body of other tilted outward, cylindrical body flaring into pinched splayed feet as attaches to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints barely visible on body and arm of lt dancer. 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: | White slip overall. Red paint on base near rt dancer. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare medium tabular angular orange inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink), Paint: 10R 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining pieces preserving two dancers with arms joined, base of flutist, and half of base. Traces of white slip and paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.078, Th. Of base 0.005, Th. Of body 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.092 | |
| 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 010 25 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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