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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14365 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14365 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Dancer has thick strip of clay applied tightly around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, face twisted to lt, long neck tilted to rt and curving out into strips of clay as arms stretching toward neighboring dancer, chest flattened, upper body tilted backward slightly, and cylindrical body. Similar to MF-10883 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 reddish yellow clay with pinkish gray core with few fine sparkling, few medium tabular angular white inclusions and rare small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 6/2 (pinkish gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces (head from Lot 863 joined in 2007) preserving dancer from head to feet and part of both arms. Part of face missing. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F 32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. Of body 0.011 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.062 | |
| 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 B1 P143 | |
| NB232 B2 P143 | ||
| NB232 B2 P143, LOT 0864 | ||
| LOT 0864 | ||
| LOT 0863 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 2007 019 23 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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