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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 14349 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 14349 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central figure (flutist). Dancer has wide thick strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, small semi-circular face, broad short neck, flattened chest, rt arm rectangular and lt circular in section, cylindrical body leaning to rt and tapering towards feet before flaring and attaching to base with an additional strip of clay around feet. Flat circular base with roughly pared edge and kidney shaped depression measuring 0.012 by 0.008 near center which is not the flutist since there is already a depression for that figure. Similar to KT2-7, 8, 9, 10 (Corinth XV.2 Class II p. 43 no. 4-7 pl. 4). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. | |
| Attributes: | polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with light gray core with few fine sparkling, few small to very large spherical angular gray inclusions and rare large spherical rounded and rare medium to large platy angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 7/1 (lightgray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three pieces preserving one dancer from head to base with no arms, depressions for a dancer and flutist and quarter of base. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F 32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.078, Th. Of base 0.006-0.007, Th. Of body 0.012 | |
| 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 | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 2007 032 34a Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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