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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11513 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11513 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, wide triangular face, short neck, small flat strips as arms, lt arm stretching out to join other dancers, flattened chest, body oval in section pinched in at belly qith upper body twisted rt, lower to lt, flaring into two pinched splayed feet. Trimmed 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 | |
| Material: | fine pink clay with few fine sparkling and few small tabular angular orange inclusions and rare medium platy angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving dancer from head to feet and small part of base. Missing rt arm, most of lt arm. Roughly constructed. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.076, Th. of body 0.011 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 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 1965 006 13 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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