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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11502 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11502 | |
| 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, clay overfold from back to front as head, semic-circular face, additional small thin clay strip over face (mouth?) covering upper edge of start of thin clay rolls of double flute, neck and head tilted backward, flat strips of arms attached at shoulders, rt arm curving forward, and body oval in section flaring into two pinched splayed feet. Fingerprints on head and face. 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, rare small spherical angular black, and rare large tabular angular white inclusions and rare medium tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/3 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving flutist from head to feet, missing most of flutes, part of rt and all of lt arm, broken across rt foot. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.011 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.076 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class II no. 8 dancer from 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 023 01 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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