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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11507 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11507 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Flute player has wide flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, additional clay strip over face (mouth?) covering upper edge of thick clay rolls of double flute jutting out at angle, flat strips of arms attached at shoulders, curving around to rounded hands attached to bottom of flute, upper body tilted backward, and cylindrical body. Fingerprints on head and polos. Similar to KT2-6 and KT2-7(Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4 pl. 4). | |
| Attributes: | Polos, flute | |
| Material: | Fine pink and reddish yellow clay with gray core with few fine sparkling inclusions and few large spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 6/1 (gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving flutist from head to close to base. Broken across body near attachment to base. Traces of white slip | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.079 | |
| 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, LOT 0864 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 006 07 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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