| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2679 | |
| Title: | MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD: MENANDER | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 2679 | |
| Description: | Life-size portrait of mature, beardless man, possibly turned to proper right?. Top of head worked separately; picked flat with square central dowel W00.025, Depth00.058, upper part of which wider and oval. Asymmetries in head and neck, Short hair, parted in center down back, locks brushed forward toward ears and forehead. C-shaped locks frame forehead with group of 4 wispy curls in center. Broad forehead with single crease; rounded brow beneath which large deepset eyes, wrinkles at outer corners; heavy upper lid, inner curve of which outlined from socket by drill. High prominent cheekbones, deep creases framing nose. "Dry" lips, upper lip simply cut flat, mouth turning down at corners. Left ear schematically rendered, right more realistic. Identified by GMA Richter: Menander. In 1918 head attached to S-1295; later separated, recatalogued in 1962. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., head and top of neck; top of head separately pieced; part of forehead, surface of pupils, jaw missing; nose largely missing; lips partly broken, large break below rt. ear; part of rt. ear missing. Surfaces worn. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.239 (head, as preserved) H00.198 (face) W00.162 (cheeks) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.265 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Provenance Unknown | |
| Context: | Provenance Unknown, Originally in New Corinth Demarcheion; brought to | |
| Bibliography: | ArchDelt 1918, parar. p. 4-5, fig. 7; Richter, Portraits of Greeks (1965), N42 P233 Figs. 1624-6. Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P446 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Provenance Unknown Image: bw 2001 006 29 Image: bw 2001 006 30 Image: bw 2001 006 31 Basket: Provenance Unknown, Originally in New Corinth Demarcheion; brought to |
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