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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14368 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14368 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Dancer has wide strip of clay applied tightly around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, broad semi-circular face, straight neck, flattened strips of clay as arms pinched together with arm of neighboring dancer, chest flattened, upper body tilted backward slightly, and body oval in section. Well preserved fingerprints overall. Similar to MF-11490 and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with pink core with frequent fine sparkling, few medium to large spherical angular tan, few small tabular angular white inclusions and few small tabular angular and few medium platy angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 7/3 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces (Arm joined from Lot 864 in 2007) preserving dancer from head to waist, part of rt arm and most of lt arm. Slightly incrusted. Traces of white slip. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. Of body 0.009 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.035 | |
| 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 0863 | ||
| LOT 0864 | ||
| LOT 0863 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 2007 019 25 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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