Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 1997 2 | |
Title: | RIGHT HAND OF A SMALL MARBLE STATUE | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Year: | 1997 | |
Object Number: | 2 | |
Description: | Right hand of a figure, probably female, half to 1/3 life-size. Hand flexed, with fingers bent, thumb pronated. Fingernails of first 3 fingers incised, lines on palm lightly incised; on inside of 1st and 2nd fingers, near tips, trace of strut or object held between thumb and fingers. Wrist joint worked with anathyrosis, hole D00.004 m. in center. Surface lightly polished. | |
Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts., preserving right hand except for missing tip of thumb and little finger, broken strut between pads of index and middle finger. Joining surface at wrist. | |
Dimensions Actual: | W00.035 (palm) W00.028 (wrist) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.088 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Chronology: | Roman Context 4th-6th cent. NPD | |
Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
Context: | NB892 B66 P81 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Image: bw 1997 016 27 Basket: NB892 B66 P81 Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 45 (p. 81) |