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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11492 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11492 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Each dancer has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, semi-circular face, broad short neck, flattened chest, long flat strips as arms joining dancers, cylindrical body pinched near bottom before flaring as attaches to base seamlessly. Flat circular base, slightly concave underneath central figure, with edge pared and smoothed. Fingerprints over whole piece. 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 attachment of dancers and horizontal line across neck of dancer unjoined by arms with others. Yellow paint on unjoined dancer's arm and body. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with few fine sparkling, and rare small tabular angular white inclusions and few small to large tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 10YR 7/3 (very pale brown), Paint: 10R 6/8 (light red) and 10YR 8/8 (yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Several joining pieces (arm joined from Lot 864 in 2007) preserving 3 dancers, arm bet. 2 dancers, arm of other, stump of flutist, and most of base. Chips on base, torso of a dancer and feet of another. White slip and traces of paint. Slightly encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.088, Diam. 0.082, Th. of base 0.004-0.006, Th. of body 0.014 | |
| 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 28 Image: bw 2007 023 27 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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