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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11515 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11515 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, semi-circular face angled slightly off of head, short wide neck curving into round strips as arms stretching out to join other dancers, flattened chest, upper body tilted backward, cylindrical body flaring as attached to base. Flat base with pared 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 and rare small spherical angular black inclusions and few small spherical angular and few medium tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) and 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving dancer from head to feet with small part of base. Missing most of rt and all of lt arm. Discolored. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.070, Th. of body 0.010 | |
| 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 14 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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