| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2011 4 | |
| Title: | MARBLE SATYR HEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Object Number: | 4 | |
| Description: | White marble satyr head, slightly smaller than half life-size, upturned and tilted slightly right. Round face with wrinkled forehead and thickly carved locks of hair, mostly curving toward face, with drilled holes in curls; large deep-set eyes with narrow ridge for upper lid, thin lower lid, and small drilled hole at inner corners; irises likely not rendered. Small mouth with drill hole at corners. Ears partly covered by hair and simply modeled with drilled canal (possibly differently-sized?). At neck, just below jaw, two oval- to tear-drop-shaped protrusions, on either side of adam's apple. Similar to S-1999-14 but smaller, Eros S-2388, and joining S-451 and S-2010-2. | |
| Material: | White marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., moderate overall wear. Broken at neck. Chip missing from mouth. Disintegrating marble on part of face and hair. | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Possibly Middle Roman, comparanda is early and mid Roman | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, context 3096 | |
| Bibliography: | Williams 2013, Hesperia 82.3, cat. 18 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater Image: digital 2011 1254 |
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