Corinth Object: S 1996 4
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   S 1996 4
Title:   RELIEF: LIFE-SIZED FEMALE HEAD
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   S
Year:   1996
Object Number:   4
Description:   Slab, decorated in relatively high relief with life-sized female head. Line running over crown either a central part or part of braid, pulled over crown and gathered into bun at base of head (only partially preserved). Remaining hair over crown finely incised. Hair in front bound by either double fillet or braids, partly covering ear. Helix plasitcally carved, shallow depression for ear canal. Rasping on neck and cheek. Relief slab thickens at upper edge, no crowning moulding. Background smoothed by flat chisel with coarse rasping. Top of slab rough picked. Back of slab smoothly dressed, possibly sawn.
Material:   Dense white stone with broad, dark gray streak. Crystalline structure unclear.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving front, back and upperedge, broken remaining edges; preserving head from neck to crown, back half. Two holes in head.
Dimensions Actual:   T00.091 (max) T00.054 (relief slab) H00.169 (head, bottom of ear to top of head)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.276 W00.163
Period:   1 st c. A.C.
Chronology:   1st cent. A.C., Context Turkish
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Context:   NB888 B82 P88
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Temple E, Southeast