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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | A 1996 8 | | Title: | | PAINTED WALL PLASTER: RED NIKE | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | A | | Year: | | 1996 | | Object Number: | | 8 | | Description: | | Fragmentary panel of wall plaster. | | Decoration: | | Upright flying Nike on deep purplish red ground;wings extend behind; head is 3/4 lt; torso turns lt, rt. thigh is in partial profile; rt. arm crosses upper body to lt; rt hand holds laurel crown; . Rt wing begins out of foreshortened rt shoulder; line of creamy white paint forms upper border of wing. Dashes of blue, green and lime paint create feathers. Lt wing rises behind head. Traces of laurel crown are above her dark brown hair. Rt jaw is shadowed by gray paint to indicate torsion of neck. Green and white lines of paint above her rt arm may be traces of palm branch held in lt hand. She wears a peplos belted at the waist and more clearly above the thigh. Active movement of leg forces peplos to reveal upper thigh. Folds of peplos highlighted w/ violet and pink paint; concentration of pink, violet, blue, green and black paint above thigh. Green mantle which hung off lt arm encircles waist and appears on rt side. Ca. 0.28 m. of free field to lt. of rt. wing | | Mythology: | | Nike | | Attributes: | | Laurel crown | | Material: | | Four coats white plaster: 1 and 2, layers of fine arriccio of sand, small pebbles, straw; 3 finer layer no inclusions; 4 carries color. | | Munsell Color: | | Red background: ca. 10R 4/7 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Many joining frgts., giving figure from head to upper thigh; partial rt arm and hand; partial wings; head is poorly preserved. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.63 W00.40 T00.003 | | Period: | | Roman | | Chronology: | | Roman | | Area: | | Panayia Bath | | Context: | | NB881 B160 P191 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Panayia Bath
Image: bw 1999 014 16
Notebook Page: NB 881b, spread 102 (p. 191)
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