Corinth Object: S 1996 7
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