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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11524 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11524 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dancer from group moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has thick wide flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos tilted slightly down on rt, clay overfold from back to front as head, semi-circular face, broad long neck, flattened chest, long flat strip arms stretching toward other dancers, lt arm smaller than rt, body, oval in section, flaring into two pinched splayed feet as attaches to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. 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 reddish yellow core with few fine sparkling inclusions and rare medium spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Core: 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving dancer from head to feet and part of base. Half of both arms missing. Chips on chest and arms. Roughly constructed. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.101, Th. of base 0.003, Th. of body 0.010 | |
| 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 at earlier visit to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 006 22 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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