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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14351 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14351 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dancer from group moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Each figure has body oval in section with two pinched splayed feet attaching to base. Flat roughly circular base with edge pared and smoothed. Linear ridges on backside of base from cutting with string?. Similar to MF-14347 and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with a reddish yellow core with frequent fine sparkling, few small tabular angular white, rare medium spherical subrounded gray inclusions and few small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Core: 7.5YR 7/6 reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining pieces (1 base pieces joined from Lot 863 in 2007) preserving base, stump of dancer and flutist. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F 32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.015, L. 0.093, Th. Of base 0.003 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.075 | |
| 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 0863 | ||
| LOT 0864 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 2007 020 20 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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