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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 11516 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 11516 | | Description: | | Terracotta solid handmade group of dancers moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has flat strip of clay applied around front of head as polos, clay overfold from back to front as head, small semi-circular face, very long neck curving into flat strips as arms, flattened chest, body, oval in section, arching backward, pinched near bottom then flaring slightly before attachment to base. Similar to KT2-4, 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 very pale brown clay with few fine sparkling and rare large tabular angular orange inclusions | | Munsell Color: | | Clay: 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single piece preserving dancer from head to feet, missing arms. | | Manufacture: | | F32 HM | | Dimensions Actual: | | Th. of body 0.009 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.075 | | 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: | | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | | Context: | | NB232 B2 P143 | | | | NB232 B2 P143, LOT 2019 | | | | LOT 0864 | | | | NB279 B7 P9 | | | | NB279 B7 P9, LOT 0864 | | | | LOT 2019 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Acrocorinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Basket: NB232 B2 P143
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