| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1456 | |
| Title: | ARMORED STATUE OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1456 | |
| Description: | Over life-sized statue of emperor in military dress possibly standing with right leg forward, left back. Wears armour with long lappets arranged in two overlapping rows, decorated on the top by figures in very high relief. At the top are an elephant's and ram's head, a head of Medusa, all in profile to right, an eagle and Zeus Ammon in the center, both facing front. At bottom are a crossed pair of greaves and an amazon's shield with a gorgoneion at center. Below the pteryges hang long tabs texutred with a finely-carved herringbone pattern, and bordered by a double band of parallel incisions similar to the decoration on the edge of the pteryges. In 1987 (?) statue removed from display, marble consolidated, and the cuirass or armour part of the statue reassembled in paster with a few non-joining fragments incorporated into the whole. Among these is a piece from the breastplate that preserves a bit of billowing drapery from one of the two Nikai that decorated it. This piece, however, is wrongly places as part of right Nike; must be billowing skirt behind proper left Nike. Theft: May 16, 1991, someone pulled off the head of Medusa from the cuirass, as it was on display. | |
| Material: | White fine-grained marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Numerous non-joining fragments, major portion of which preserves lower portion of armor. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.87 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Hadrian according to Corinth X p.125 #6 | |
| Area: | Odeion | |
| Context: | NB101 P125 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Odeion Images (10) Notebook Page: NB 101, spread 69 (pp. 125 - 126) |
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