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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11504 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11504 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four dancers moving in circle around central standing flutist. Each figure has cylindrical body, flaring at bottom attaching to base. Circular flat base, slightly concave under central figure, with pared and smoothed edge and very evenly spaced dancers. Fingerprints over top and bottom of base. Similar to MF-11491. | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. Red paint on side of base. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling inclusions and rare medium tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 10YR 8/4 (pink), Paint: 10R 5/6 (red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving base, stumps of dancer and flutist, and indentation of three other dancers. Traces of white slip and paint. Lightly encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of base 0.005-0.007, Diam.0.085 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H.0.029 | |
| 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 006 04 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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