Corinth Object: S 1999 5
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)