| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1457 | |
| Title: | SMALL SCALE BUST OF SERAPIS | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1457 | |
| Description: | A small-scale bust of Sarapis; originally wore narrow kalathos resting on crown; hair arranged in longlish locks: a fringe of 5 locks, swinging to lt. frame forehead, above which 2 springing locks, curling in opposite directions; curls frame the face on either side; in back a line, as if from a fillet, makes an indentation at ca. nose height, below which 2 rows of locks curling in different directions. Low straight forehead, sharp brow ridges, deeply set horizontal eyes; small hole for pupil. Mouth framed by long downturned moustache; dense curly beard, with part down center, row of curls to either side in a vertical row, irregular ones to either side. In back have a narrow band from drapery (?), finished edge below. On underside have a part of the surface to proper lt. of pedestal support. | |
| Decoration: | Red paint preserved in juncture of hair with face, on eyeball, around lids, in beard. Traces of gold leaf over red in beard. | |
| Mythology: | Serapis | |
| Material: | Coarse-crystalled white marble, laminating fractures. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., complete head except for top, where kalathos broken away; part of tenon preserved on underside; front of chest and shoulders missing. Paint faintly preserved. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.115 (tip beard to crown) W00.0485 (face at temples) L00.015 (eye) L00.017 (inner corners) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.141 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd-3rd quarter 2nd c. A.C. (Milleker) ; context Byzantine | |
| Area: | Lechaion Road | |
| Context: | NB88 P29 | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1926 P56-57; Brady HSCP 1941 P64; Reutersward, Studien zur Polychromie der Plastik 2, 1960, p. 197 n.554, K-S, N470; Smith, HThR 70, 1977, P224-5; Milleker, Hesperia 1985 P124-127; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, American Journal of Archaeolog30:1... 1926 Publication: Milleker, Hesperia 54:2, 1985 Monument: Lechaion Road Image: bw 4820 Basket: NB88 P29 Notebook Page: NB 88, spread 19 (pp. 29 - 30) |
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