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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11514 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11514 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has wide flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, small semi-circular face, short neck curving into flat strips as arms stretching out to join other dancers, flattened chest, upper body tilted forward, cylindrical body flaring slightly as attaches to base. Thin roughly circular flat base, slightly concave, with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints on face 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). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. Red paint on base. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with light brown core with few fine sparkling and rare large spherical angular tan inclusions and rare small to large tabular rounded voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 6/3 (light brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining piece preserving dancer from head to feet and part of base. Missing most of arms. Traces of white slip and paint. Scratched. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.088, Th. of base 0.004-0.006, Th. of body 0.012 | |
| 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 013 16 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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