Corinth Object: S 1540
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   S 1540
Title:   HEAD WITH MURAL CROWN
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   S
Object Number:   1540
Description:   Under life-sized head of idealized woman, turned to proper lt. Wears polis crown with central gate, towers, coursed masonry with slit windows. Hair parted in center, 2 rows of tight curls with drilled centers frame forehead to back of ears; single lock before each ear; behind lt. ear short locks in low relief without drill. Top of head worked with point. Oval face with broad forehead, narrow chin. Sharp brow ridges and upper lids, lightly incised iris. Drilled nostrils. Small mouth open slightly, showing tongue; small drill hole at lt. corner. Face worked smoothly but not polished.Faint rasping on neck
Material:   Fine crystalled white marble, sparkling, with vertical foliations.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head to mid neck; head complete except for nose from just below bridge; bit of left nostril; back of head partly broken away and one-third of rt. ear. Two nicks in forehead above lt. tearduct; one on cheek below outer corner.
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.195 (head)
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.290
Period:   1 st c. A.C.
Chronology:   late 1st century CE?
Area:   Temple E
Context:   NB128 P5
Bibliography:   Stillwell et al. 1941, Corinth 1.2 cat. 5; Vermeule 1968, Roman Imperial Art in Greece, Asia Minor, p. 36, fig. 14; Ridgeway 1981, Hesperia, p. 441; Corinth 20, 2003; Brown 2017, Corinth in Late Antiquity, fig. 35
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell, et al. Corinth 1:2, 1941
Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981
Monument: Temple E
Images (6)
Basket: NB128 P5
Notebook Page: NB 128, spread 8 (pp. 5 - 6)