| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1997 3a | |
| Title: | BANQUETING HERO RELIEF | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Object Number: | 3 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | S-1997-003B | |
| Description: | Relief with roughly punched back, flat surfaces worked with flat chisel on bottom and edge. On face: projecting fascia along bottom H00.011, no frame at rt., sculpture extending to edge. Reclining banqueter, preserved from shoulders to ca. knees, lt. arm; reclining on lt. arm on a pillow, torso frontal, legs extended to lt. Semi-draped in a himation that covers lower half of torso and legs, lt. arm from biceps down. Reclines on a mattress and couch, frame of which makes a clear band beneath body to rt. edge; tall plain couch leg set in 00.01 m. from rt. edge; beneath couch top and recessed slightly from its surface is a long sheet with possible draping folds; just to lt. of couch leg in low relief is a broader leg (?) which extends behind sheet. No sign of a table with food. | |
| Mythology: | Banqueting Hero | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with vertical foliation. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving front, back, bottom and right edge; broken above and to left. Torso of hero partly discolored black; surfaces abraded and encrusted. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.055 (max) T00.045 (background) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.185 W00.144 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | Classical | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB892 B117 P133 | |
| Bibliography: | Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014 Monument: Panaghia Villa Images (5) Basket: NB892 B117 P133 Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 69 (p. 133) |
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