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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14361 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14361 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Dancer has wide thick strip of clay applied tightly around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, wide semi-circular face, broad short neck curving out into flattened strips of clay as arms pinched together with neighboring arm of dancer, chest flattened and tilted backward slightly, cylindrical body pinched above feet before flaring and attaching to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints overall. Similar to MF-14352, MF-14358, and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with pinkish gray core with few fine sparkling, few medium to large tabular angular white inclusions, and few small spherical angular and few small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Core: 7.5YR 6/2 (pinkish gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four joining pieces (1 arm from Lot 863 joined in 2007) preserving single dancer from head to feet, all of arms, and part of base. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F 32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.085, Th. Of body 0.013, Th. Of base 0.003-0.005 | |
| 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 032 35a Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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