| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2011 2 | |
| Title: | MARBLE SMALL-SCALE FEMALE HEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Small-scale marble head of undetermined sex (possibly female?) from a relief plaque. Face in three-quarters profile view, lower eyelid carved with low ridge which extends to straight, narrow nose; nostrils slightly recessed, delineated by incision; full mouth slightly downturned, corners drilled, upper lip fuller than bottom, projects forward; chin and cheeks soft and rounded. | |
| Material: | Fine-grained white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Partially preserved head, broken along back, at lower right eyelid, across nose, along bottom of chin and right cheek. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. chin to nose tip 0.023. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.050, W. 0.048 | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, context 2057, LOT 2011 022 | |
| Bibliography: | Williams 2013, Hesperia 82.3, cat. 17 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater Image: digital 2011 1228 |
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