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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 10708 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 10708 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of four dancers moving in circle with arms joined around flutist standing in center. Dancers, except one, have wide flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos. Each has clay overfold from back to front as head, semi-circular face, broad short neck, flattened chest, bulky semi-flattened strips as arms joining dancers, upper body tilted outward slightly, cylindrical body flaring as attaches seamlessly to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints on faces, chests, bottom of dancers, and base. Similar in size and style to KT2-11 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 8 pl. 4) and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. Red paint on neck and back of dancer with broken lt arm. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow pink clay with few fine sparkling and rare medium to large tabular angular red inclusions and rare small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: Between 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) and 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Paint: 10R 5/8 (red) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Several joining pieces missing joining arms on one set of dancers and flutist. One dancer missing polos and top of head, another chipped frompolos to waist on rt side. Traces of white slip and paint. Mildly encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.091, Diam. 0.097, Th. Of base 0.004-0.006, Th. Of body 0.013 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class II no. 8 Shrine of Double Stele 1st half of 4th c. B.C.) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB232 B2 P143, LOT 0864 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Images (4) Basket: NB232 B2 P143 Notebook Page: NB 232, spread 76 (pp. 142 - 143) |
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