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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11526 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11526 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dancer from group 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, semi-circular face, broad short neck curving into long flat strip arms stretching towards dancer, flattened chest, upper body tilted backward slightly, cylindrical body pinched near bottom before flaring as attaches to base. Flutist has cylindrical body flaring at bottom. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed 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). | |
| Attributes: | Polos | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with pink core with few fine sparkling, and few fine tabular rounded white inclusions and few small to large spherical angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four joining pieces preserving dancer from head to feet, stump of flutist, part of another dancer, and half of base. Traces of white slip. Encrusted. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.081, Th. of base 0.005, Th. of body 0.013 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.080 | |
| 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 B1 P143, LOT 0863 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Possibly picked up from earlier visit to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 010 07 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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