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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11527 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11527 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade flutist from group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has cylindrical body, flaring at bottom. Flutist has wide flat strip of clay applied tightly around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, additional wide clay strip across face covering edge of two strips of short double flute jutting out at angle, broad short neck, round strips of arms attached at shoulder curving forward, rounded hands curl around bottom of each flute, rt hand much lower than lt, upper body tilted backward slightly, cylindrical body flaring as attaches to base. Flat circular base, slightly concave, with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints on body and base. Similar to KT2-5 and KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. | |
| Attributes: | Polos, flute | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with with gray core with few fine sparkling, rare small tabular rounded white, and rare small to very large tabular angular red inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 5YR 6/8 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 5/1 (gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving flutist from head to feet, stump of dancer, and part of base. Traces of white slip. Encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.081, Th. of base 0.005, Th. of body 0.014 | |
| 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 B1 P143, LOT 0863 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Possibly picked up at earlier visit to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 013 17 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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