Corinth Object: MF 14359
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 14359
Title:   TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   14359
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 tightly around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, wide semi-circular face, broad short neck curving out into flattened strips of clay as arms pinched together with neighboring arm of dancer, chest flattened and tilted backward slightly, cylindrical body pinched above feet before flaring and attaching to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints overall. Similar to MF-14352 and 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 pink clay with pinkish gray core with few fine sparkling, few small tabular angular white, rare large tabular angular tan inclusions and few small tabular angular voids
Munsell Color:   Surface: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), Core: 7.5YR 6/2 (pinkish gray)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining pieces (1 arm joined from Lot 863 in 2007) preserving dancer from head to base part of rt arm, most of lt arm, and part of base. Traces of white slip.
Manufacture:   F 32 HM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.095, 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 B2 P143
    NB232 B1 P143
    NB232 B1 P143, LOT 0863
    LOT 0864
    LOT 0863
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Kokkinovrysi
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Kokkinovrysi
Image: bw 2007 019 31
Basket: NB232 B1 P143
Basket: NB232 B2 P143