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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11531 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: DANCING GROUP | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11531 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade dancer from group moving in circle with arms joined around central standing flutist. Dancer has thick wide 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, flattened chest, long flat strip arms stretching toward other dancers, cylindrical body pinched in near bottom then flaring as attaches to base. Flat circular base with pared and smoothed edge. Fingerprints over whole figure. 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). | |
| Decoration: | White slip overall. | |
| Attributes: | polos | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with few fine sparkling inclusions and rare medium tabular angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining pieces preserving dancer from head to feet and part of base. Missing all of lt and part of rt arm. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F32 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.087, Th. of base 0.004, Th. of body 0.012 | |
| 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 at earlier visit to site | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 006 27 Basket: NB232 B1 P143 |
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