Corinth Object: S 1999 11b
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   S 1999 11b
Title:   STATUETTE OF DIONYSOS: RT. ARM, KANTHAROS
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   S
Year:   1999
Object Number:   11
Object Suffix:   b
Related Objects:   S-1999-11A
Description:   Right arm down at side, wrist slightly flexed toward body; holds a kantharos in hand, with first and little fingers extended, 2 middle fingers folded around handle (?). Kantharos has a disc foot, squat globular body and tall vertical rim; two long vertical handles. On inside of wrist and on inside of kantharos body two rectangular struts for attachment to body.
Mythology:   Dionysos
Attributes:   Kantharos
Material:   Fine white marble.
Condition:   Fragment. Four joining frgts., preserving right arm from elbow to tips of fingers; missing thumb; kantharos, complete except for rim on inside surface; missing part of outside of forearm from wrist to near elbow. Badly calcined.
Dimensions Actual:   L00.040 (forearm) W00.016 (wrist) H00.045 (kantharos)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.095
Period:   Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:   4th c. A.C.?; mid 3rd c. at the earliest according to Stirling
Area:   Panaghia Villa
Context:   NB918 B95 P123
Bibliography:   Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 8b; Sanders 2005, p. 424
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stirling, Hesperia 77:1, 2008
Monument: Panaghia Villa
Images (6)
Basket: NB918 B95 P123