Corinth Object: S 1996 3
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   S 1996 3
Title:   HELMETED HEAD IN RELIEF : ORPHEUS FROM 3-FIGURE RELIEF
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   S
Year:   1996
Object Number:   3
Description:   Figure, about half life-size, with down-cast head in profile to lt. Figure wears a helmet with tapering thin spike projecting from crown, raised vizer around face, and flap trailing down neck. Finely incised strands of hair framing face. Low forehead, properly modeled profile eye with upper eyelid overlapping lower at outer corner; right eye partially depicted against relief ground.Small mouth with full lips; deep depression under lower lip; full, rounded chin. A portion of the neck survives, ear is covered by helmet. Relief background is smooth, but not polished, continuing at least 0.09 m. to rt. of figure. Occasional point marks around outline of head, no drill. Back of the relief originally hammer dressed (?) with subsequent trimming. Top surface roughly picked, making acute angle to front face with square dowel hole D00.018 Depth00.015 in top to rt. of figure. Copy of 3-figure relief depicting Orpheus and Eurydike. See S-0060 for Peleiad relief.
Material:   White marble, maximum crystal diameter ca. 0.8 mmwith vertical foliations.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., part of front, back faces, top. Broken at neck, nose and front of forehead missing,part of spike's surface, tip, surface above spike; lower edge of helmet partly broken. Suface badly worn and chipped.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.140 (head, including helmet) H00.110 (face) T00.079-00.090 (relief slab) H00.045 (relief)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.260 (relief slab) W00.262 (relief slab)
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   2nd half 5th c. B.C. Context Turkish.
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Context:   NB888 B69 P74
Bibliography:   Corinth 20, 2003.; Sturgeon 2017, "Three figure-reliefs at Corinth", p.383, fig.2
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Temple E, Southeast