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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11534 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11534 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dancer from group moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has thick flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, small semi-circular face, broad long neck curving into slightly convex chest and flat strip arms lt arm of adjoining dancer overlaps rt arm, pinched together, short body, oval in section, flaring near bottom, extra strip of clay wrapped around bottom securing to base. Fingerprints on polos, arms and lower body. 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 amd rare small spherical angular black inclusions and rare small spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) and 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single piece preserving dancer from head to feet. Missing small part of rt arm. Discolored. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.011 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.061 | |
| 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 P9 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | NB251 P97 for lot | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 013 19 Basket: NB247 P9 |
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