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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11518 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11518 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has thin flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, semi-circular face, short neck curving into flat strips as arm, lt arm of adjoining dancer overlaps rt arm and pinched together, flattened chest, body tilted backward and leaning to rt, body, oval in section, flaring into two pinched splayed feet as attaches to base. Flat circular base with pared edge. Fingerprints on face and body. 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 very pale brown clay with rare fine sparkling, rare medium tabular angular orange, and few medium tabular angular white inclusions and rare small to large tabular rounded voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown), Paint: 10R 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving head to feet of single dancer and part of base. Missing lt arm. Large chip from lt lower body. Roughly constructed. Traces of white slip and paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.071, Th. of base 0.005, Th. of body 0.010 | |
| 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 17 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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