| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1087 | |
| Title: | "COFFER" | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Object Number: | 1087 | |
| Description: | Right section of face; mask of Old Slave type. Modelled details of face: bulging brow, tufts of hair grow up from brow. Flattened nose, right eye carved as a circle in high relief, open mouth outlined with continuous, thick lip. Beard carved as a series of thick vertical strands. Other related fragments: A 752, A 836-837, A 841, A 862-874, A 878, A 901, A 961-967, A 1025, A 1051, A 1080-1086, A 1088-1095, A 1983 1-8, A 1983 11-12, A 1985 1, A 1986 6-7, A 1988 12, A 1994 4. | |
| Material: | Fine-grained white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Broken all around, back surface broken away, signs of burning ? | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. with relief 0.075, Th. background 0.05. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 022, W. 0.11. | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Area: | Athena Trench | |
| Context: | Athena Trench | |
| Findspot Description: | Found in wooden tray in sculpture apotheke marked "Shear Basement, coffer and fruit friezes" with A 1080-1086, 1088-1095, frgt joining S 957, S 3651-3656; inventoried by A. Ajootian, July 2007. A 1080-1091 probably from Athena Trench. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Athena Trench Image: bw 2007 022 13 Basket: Athena Trench |
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