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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11517 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11517 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Flutist has indentation across forehead for polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, additional clay strip across face covering upper part of two clay rolls of double flute jutting downward, long neck, clay strip arms, attached at shoulder, curving forward, rounded rt hand attached to bottom of flute, lt hand curls around bottom of flute, body oval in section, pinched at back and upper body tilted backward. Fingerprint on polos. 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, flute | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving flutist from head to lower body. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.010 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.060 | |
| 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 16 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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