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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14356 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14356 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four to five dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Each figure has body, oval in section, flaring into pinched slightly splayed feet as attaches to base. Additional clay wrapped around feet to strengthen join. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Slight ridges on top of base possibly from potter's smoothing tool. Similar to MF-11489, MF-14358, and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with frequent fine sparkling, few small tabular angular tan and few small spherical angular white inclusions and rare small to very large tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four joining pieces (base with dancer stump joined from Lot 864 in 2007) preserving stump of dancer and flutist, depression of another dancer and two-thirds of base. Slightly incrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F 32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. Of base 0.005, Th. Of body 0.010, Diam. 0.092 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.015 | |
| 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 | |
| NB232 B1 P143 | ||
| NB232 B1 P143, LOT 0864 | ||
| LOT 0863 | ||
| LOT 0864 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 2007 020 19 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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