| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1995 4 | |
| Title: | DRAPERY FRAGMENT OF FEMALE(?) FIGURE WITH RELIEF BACKGROUND | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1995 | |
| Object Number: | 4 | |
| Description: | Relief consisting of a slab, finished at bottom, and decorated in low relief with part of a front, large-scale draped figure. Preserved are three columns offolds of a mantle that hang down left side of figure.The leftmost column broken by diagonal channels,suggesting a pull of drapery toward the left side.Remaining 2 columns separated by deep drill channeland split by shallower channels as they open towardbottom. Folds cut off at lower edge; not clear whether sculpture continued on a second block. Atleast 0.14 m. of background preserved to proper lt.of figure, worked smoothly. Bottom trimmed with clawchisel, with row of gouges running parallel to facebut 0.033 m. back. Rectangular dowel cutting inbottom 0.041 x 0.015, set in 0.032 m. from back face.Back roughly picked. Possibly part of series withS-0609. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Fragment, preserving bottom edge, back and front | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.077 (background) H00.036 (relief) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.420 W00.289 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman, Context Post-Frankish | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context: | NB874 B99 P92 | |
| NB879 B23 P46 | ||
| Bibliography: | Ajootian 2014, Hesperia 83.2, cat. 11 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Ajootian, Hesperia 83:2, 2014 Monument: Temple E, Southeast |
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