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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | S 343 | | Title: | | RELIEF OF FACE | | Category: | | Sculpture | | Category Code: | | S | | Object Number: | | 343 | | Description: | | Modelling very slight. Two arched grooves represent eyebrowns. Two cricles for irises and two small holes for pupils of the eyes. Traces of a groove for mustache or mouth remain at edges of break. Face broad and rounded. Nose projects only slightly. | | Decoration: | | Traces of black pigment in grooves for eyebrows and mustache. Surface then covered with thin coat of white plaster. | | Material: | | Soft brown stone. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Top edge original. End of nose broken. Mouth, chin, and lower part of left cheek broken away. Back roughly shaped. | | Period: | | 4th c. A.C. | | Chronology: | | Brooneer identifies it as a Coptic import of fourth or fifth c. A.C. | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IX, p. 4, no. 2; AJA 40, 1936, p. 204-6, fig. 1. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Images (10)
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