Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 2838 | |
Title: | RT. FOOT, PLINTH + STATUE OF DRAPED MALE | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Object Number: | 2838 | |
Description: | Standing male figure, over life-size; weight on r. leg, l. leg slightly bent; roughly worked support behind l. leg; l. arm bent, held at side; l. forearm originally projected forward; r. arm sharply bent and brought across chest, hand holding fold of cloth; wears tunic, visible at neck; Roman toga draped in unusual manner; umbo pulled out slightly over stomach, held up by r. hand; sinus pulled up over r. shoulder, covering r. arm; licinia of toga falls onto top of l. foot and touches plinth next to foot; wears boots, showing shape of toes on r. foot; back roughly worked; rounded plinth, edges closely following outer contours of feet, slightly undercutting side of r. foot; surface very weathered, tool marks difficult to discern; claw chisel on side of support; traces of rasp over r. foot; flat chisel on back; drill work in folds on upper body; point on plinth. Arrangement of toga folds most closely comparable to figures on Ara Pacis. | |
Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with traces of mica | |
Condition: | Fragment. Original frgt.: rt. foot without heel and plinth. To this added statue from neck to lt. foot. Lacks head, l. hand (dowelled on), two fingers of r. hand; edges of drapery chipped; surface weathered and discolored. | |
Dimensions Actual: | W00.55 (shoulders) W00.11 (feet) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H02.00 | |
Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
Chronology: | 1st century A.D., Augustan | |
Area: | Peribolos of Apollo ; Theater | |
Context: | NB332 B3 P38 | |
Bibliography: | AJA 1928, P479, fig3; AJA 1969, P196, PL54, fig14; DeGrazia, diss, P247, N65.; Corinth 20, 2003.; Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 34 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publications (4) Monument: Peribolos of Apollo ; Theater Images (6) |