| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 3577 | |
| Title: | SILENOS: HAIRY LEG | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 3577 | |
| Old Number: | S-3580 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Over life-size leg of Silenos, wearing wooly garment with 8 rows of wavy locks of hair. L. each row top 00.06, bottom 00.055. The running drill separates rows and vertical sections of hair. This leg does not join foot S-3589. | |
| Mythology: | Silenos | |
| Material: | White fine-crystalled micaceous marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Originally single frgt., broken all around, preserving four rows of hairy strands; added join (2001): two frgts. in all, leg from just below mantle to above ankle; broken behind. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.222 W00.175 T00.084 (original) H00.48 (new) | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Hadrianic | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, From Museum basement marble pile; inv. 1984 | |
| Bibliography: | Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 12H | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004 Monument: Theater |
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