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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11487 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11487 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around flutist standing in center. Dancers have flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, semi-circular face, broad short neck, flattened chest, long flat strip arms, upper body tilted backward, cylindrical body flaring into two pinched splayed feet. Figures tilted to right. 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). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. Red paint on polos. | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling and few small to large tabular angular tan inclusions and few fine spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Paint: 10R 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three pieces (two pieces of additional dancer joined from Lot 864 in 2007) preserving two dancers from head to feet with small portion of arms joining them and edge of base. Traces of white slip and paint. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.011 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.072 | |
| 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 005 34 Image: bw 2007 020 24 Basket: NB232 B2 P143 |
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