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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11499 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11499 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has cylindrical body pinched and flaring as attaches to base. Flute player has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, additional clay strip over face (mouth?) covering upper end of bent clay roll in shape of inverted V of double flute jutting out , flat strips of arms attached at shoulder curve forward with rounded rt hand and pointed lt hand grasping flutes, and cylindrical body flaring as attaches almost seamlessly to base. Flat base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints on lower body and base. 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). | |
| Attributes: | Polos, flute | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with light brown core with few fine sparkling inclusions and few small spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 6/4 (light brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Five joining pieces (four from Lot 864, one of a dancer body from Lot 863 joined in 2007) preserving dancer from waist to base, flutist from head to feet, and quarter of base. Encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of base 0.005, Th. of body 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.081 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class II no. 8 Shrine of Double Stele 1st of 4th c. B.C.) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB232 B2 P143 | |
| NB232 B1 P143 | ||
| NB232 B2 P143, LOT 0864 | ||
| LOT 0863 | ||
| LOT 0864 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 013 14 Image: bw 2007 032 32a Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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