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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11495a | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11495 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | MF 11495 B, MF 11495 C | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four or five dancers moving in circle with arms joined. Both have 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 broad flat strips as arms join dancers, cylindrical body tilted outward slightly, and flaring as attaches to base. Flat circular base with edge pared and smoothed. Fingerprints over base and bottom of dancers. Similar in size and style to KT2-12, 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. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with light gray core with frequent fine sparkling, rare small tabular angular orange, and rare small tabular angular black inclusions and few small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 7/1 (light gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three non-joining pieces (two base pieces associated by fabric and firing from Lot 864 in 2007) preserving two joined dancers from head to base and two pieces of base, one with stump. Chip on base. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.085, Th of base 0.006, Th. of body 0.013 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.095 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth 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 2007 032 30a Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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