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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14358 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14358 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Two dancers have wide thick strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, wide small semi-circular face, broad short neck, flattened chest tilted backward slightly, flattened strips of clay as arms pinched together with neighboring arm of dancer. One dancer leaning forward. Each dancer has cylindrical body pinched above feet before flaring and attaching to base. Flat rounded square base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints overall. Similar to MF-11477, MF-11492, and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. | |
| Attributes: | polos | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with pink core with few fine sparkling, few medium tabular angular white inclusions and few small to large tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Core: 7.5YR 7/3 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Nine joining pieces (1 arm from Lot 868 and 1 arm from Lot 864 joined in 2007) preserving 2 dancers from head to base, 2 stumps of dancers and three-quarters of base. Slightly incrusted. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F 32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.094, Th. Of base 0.005, Th. Of body 0.016 | |
| 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 B6 P150 | ||
| NB232 B6 P150, LOT 0863 | ||
| LOT 0863 | ||
| LOT 0868 | ||
| LOT 0864 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 2007 032 24a Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 Basket: NB232 B6 P150 |
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