| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1577 | |
| Title: | DRAPED FEMALE STATUE: SEVERE STYLE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1577 | |
| Description: | Somewhat under life-sized statue of woman standing or advancing with weight on right leg, left bent and advanced. Arms raised, right forward, left uncertain. Wears an unbelted peplos with long overfold handing down to thighs, pinned at shoulders. At neck a folded V-shaped fold. Vertical folds hang down shoulder and from either breast to hem of overfold, which is scalloped; in back the folds slant in toward center of back, hem undercut by row of drill holes. Over legs peplos hangs in vertical folds, with deep crease along inside of right leg, and outlining bent left leg. Curious flattening of surface above left knee, and an oblique edge extending toward inside of knee; rounded vertical folds continue all around statue; on proper rt. side a mass of stacked zigzag folds. Hair worn on long, pinned into back - possibly metal curls. On back have rows of tiny holes with some bronze pins still present, making oblique lines. Surface carefully smoothed. Greek original of the Severe Period. | |
| Material: | Coarse Parian marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving torso and most of legs; missing head, arms, lower legs. Surface damaged. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 1.00 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1935, p.358, fig.4; Fdelphes V (Rolley)1969, 160 under no. 199; Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 3, p.145; Schuchhardt, Melanges Mansel, p. 22 ff.; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1977, p.315-323; Ridgeway, Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981, p.424; R. Tolle-Kastenbein, Fruhklass. Peplosfiguren 1980; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publications (4) Monument: Asklepieion Images (4) Notebook Page: NB 136, spread 61 (p. 113) |
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