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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14367 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14367 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Dancer has very wide strip of clay applied tightly around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, broad rectangular face, long neck curving into strips of clay as arms stretching toward neighboring dancer, and body ovoid in section. Extra clay smeared on polos. Very roughly made. Similar to MF-11494 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 few fine sparkling and rare small tabular angular white inclusions and few small spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces (head joined from Lot 863 in 2007) preserving dancer head to waist and part of rt arm. Chipped. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F 32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. Of body 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.044 | |
| 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 B1 P143, LOT 0864 | ||
| LOT 0864 | ||
| LOT 0863 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 2007 019 26 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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