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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | S 1996 7 | Title: | | ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF OF DRAPED TORSO | Category: | | Sculpture | Category Code: | | S | Year: | | 1996 | Object Number: | | 7 | Description: | | Large relief with smooth back, rt. edge worked with feathering of flat chisel, smoother band W00.011 m. along front edge. In low relief, life-sized torso, facing left, wearing tunic that covers lt. upper arm. Shallow-cut folds descend from shoulder and neckline to waist, forming flattened V between breasts. Folds rendered either as sharply etched lines or shallow concave channels, as if made with bull-nose chisel. A second garment (?) pinned at lt. shoulder, cross-band appearing at waist, perhaps from mantle. Left arm bent across waist, holding upright before chest an aphlastron with five long curving petals. Above it a circle cut into torso. Right forearm raised in front of torso, beginning of something broken away to right of wrist. Behind figure at rt. edge of slab, a narrow flat band, tapering from top to bottom, with rounded fillet along its edge, and decorated with nail-shaped incisions. Worked with flat chisel | Material: | | Fine crystalled white marble with pale gray streaks | Condition: | | Fragment. Fragment, preserving right edge, front, back; broken other edges. Figure: shoulder to waist,rt. Forearm, lt. arm to above wrist. Chipped on right side. Numerous gouges from point on back. | Dimensions Actual: | | T00.092 (Max) T00.060 (relief background) T00.032 (relief) | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.393 W00.345 | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | Chronology: | | Early Roman, Context Frankish | Area: | | Temple E, Southeast | Context: | | NB889 B89 P91 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Monument: Temple E, Southeast
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