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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11520 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11520 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dancer from group moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has wide round neck, flattened chest, flat strip arms stretching toward other dancers, upper body tilted to rt and back, cylindrical body pinched near bottom then flaring broadly as attaches to base. 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). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. Horizontal line of red paint extends from rt shoulder across neck. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay with few fine sparkling inclusions and rare small tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Paint: 10R 4/3 (weak red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving neck to feet. Missing most of rt and all of lt arm. Chipped at base attachment. White slip and traces of paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.047 | |
| 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: | NB247 B3 P6 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 006 18 Basket: NB247 B3 P6 |
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