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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11522 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11522 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has wide thick 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, stretching toward other dancer, flattened chest, upper body tilted backward, cylindrical body flaring slightly as attaches to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints on chest, back 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 polos and thin horizontal line around neck. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling, rare medium tabular angular tan, and rare large spherical angular white inclusions and rare small to large tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Paint: 2.5YR 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving dancer from head to feet and part of base. Missing most of both arms. Traces of white slip and paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.087, Th. of base 0.003, Th. of body 0.013 | |
| 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 B1 P143, LOT 0863 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Possibly picked up from earlier visit to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 006 20 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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