| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1999 14 | |
| Title: | UNDER LIFE-SIZE HEAD OF PAN | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 14 | |
| Description: | Head of youthful male, satyr or Pan, turned sharply to proper rt. and possibly tilted down somewhat. Hair short with central part, loose curls curling back from forehead or down, vestigial fillet circling head and indenting hair, short flatter curling locks over crown and back of head, separated by drill channels. Two protuberances project from above center of forehead, horns ? Triangular forehead with pronounced crease, projecting brows, deep-set large eyes with heavy upper and thin lower lids, small drilled hole at inner corners; straight nose with flaring nostrils; short dimpled upper lip, lips parted by drill channel, deep dimple below lower lip, pronounced chin; high-boned cheeks, flattening toward mouth; ears partly covered by hair, summarily rendered. Short neck with adam's apple, curving out to finished edge; head originally socketed into torso; sides and underside of tenon worked with point. Coarse rasp work on underside of chin and side of neck. | |
| Mythology: | Pan ? | |
| Attributes: | Horns? | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Head intact except for very tip of nose. Surface heavily blackened. Crack through bridge of nose to left side of head. Chip in chin. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.144 H00.112 (head) H00.080 (face) W00.060 (thru temples) L00.018 (eye) L00.013 (inner corners) L00.047 (outer corners) L00.020 (mouth) | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Roman, possibly 2nd c. according to Stirling | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB918 B95 P123 | |
| Bibliography: | Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 2; Sanders 2005, p. 424 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Images (14) Basket: NB918 B95 P123 |
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