| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1996 1 | |
| Title: | ROMAN MARBLE BOOTED FOOT OF OVER LIFE-SIZED MALE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1996 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Left foot of over life-size male (?) standing with weight on right leg and left heel raised, left foot turned out slightly. Heel rests on wedge marble, surface roughly picked. Figure wears thin-soled boot through which toes modeled; raised bandmarks rounded edge of leathers over front of foot; above this, on tongue (?) 7-petal palmette in low relief, tip downward, with long spear-shaped central petal. Running up proper lt. side of leathers, square projections for lacings (?);on rt. side, a projecting mass, surface of which broken. Possibly rectangular plinth - lt. side straight, sloping from front to back. Fine claw onupper surface, on side flat chiseled band along upper edge, fine point below; on bottom, punch. Surface of foot smoothly finished with rasp markson rt. side. Larger than Lucius Caesar. | |
| Material: | Fine white marble, grain size under 1 mm., with micaceous veining, vertical foliation. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Fragment, left foot, instep to toes. Tip broken away at big and 2nd toes, broken along left side of foot. Plinth preserving top, lt. edge, bottom. | |
| Manufacture: | 01 M | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.136 (ball, foot) H00.076-00.088 (plinth) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.21 L00.223 (foot) | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Chronology: | Roman | |
| Area: | Temple E south | |
| Context: | NB882 B110 P133 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E south |
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