Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 1999 5 | |
Title: | MARBLE HAND, OVER LIFE-SIZE | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Year: | 1999 | |
Object Number: | 5 | |
Description: | Right hand of a slightly over life-size figure, probably female. Slight curve at wrist as hand is slightly flexed; thumb pronated. Back of hand finely and smoothly finished; palm roughly finished with flat chisel. | |
Material: | Fine crystal white marble with micaceous vein. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment, broken at wrist, fingers and 1/3 of palm missing, beginning of thumb and index finger preserved. | |
Dimensions Actual: | W00.084 (hand) T00.05 (hand) W00.059 (wrist) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.140 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Chronology: | Roman, Context Mid.Byz.-npd. | |
Area: | Panaghia south | |
Context: | NB919 B28 P85 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stirling, Hesperia 77:1, 2008 Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 1999 045 09a Basket: NB919 B28 P85 Notebook Page: NB 919, spread 47 (pp. 84 - 85) |