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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11510 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11510 | |
| Old Number: | MF 11543 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of 5 to 6 dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Each dancer has thick wide puffy strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, small semi-circular face, short neck curving into arms with oval section which twist together and join with arms of neighboring dancer, flattened chest, upper body tilted backward, body oval in section pinched above feet before flaring into two pinched splayed feet attaching to base. Flat very thin circular base with pared smoothed edge. Similar 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). | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine pink and reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling, few medium tabular angular tan, and rare large tabular angular white inclusions and rare small tabular rounded voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) and 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Several joining pieces (dancer, arms and base from Lot 864 and another dancer (MF 11543) joined in 2007) preserving 3 dancers from head to feet and most of base with edge. Rightmost dancer missing rt arm. Chips on base. Discolored. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.081, Th. Of base 0.003-0.004, Th. Of body 0.012, Diam. 0.096 | |
| 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 Image: bw 1965 006 10 Image: bw 2007 023 28 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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