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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11500 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11500 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Flute player has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos with slight overhanging brim on lt, clay overfold from back to front as head, additional clay strip over face (mouth?) covering upper edge of thin clay rolls of double flute jutting out , flat strips of arms attached at shoulders, rt arm curving inward tapering from bulbous shoulder to pointed hand curving outward attached to bottom of flute, and body oval in section flaring into two pinched splayed feet, rt larger than lt. Fingerprints on foot and neck. Similar to KT2-6 and KT2-7(Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4 pl. 4). | |
| Attributes: | Polos, flute | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare small tabular angular white inclusions and rare small to large tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving flutist from head to feet, lt arm and lt flute missing, broken at base attachment. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.075 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class II no. 8 dancer form Shrine of the 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 006 01 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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