Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 3618 | |
Title: | MARBLE RELIEF | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Object Number: | 3618 | |
Description: | Small-scale releif with figured scene in low relief crowned by plain flat moulding H00.013. Top surface not horizontal but rises at angle from face. Back lightly concave, thicker at top, thinner through frieze, worked with flat chisel. In frieze: Raised and bent arm of figure, holding staff or reins (?) at slightly oblique angle. Arm thick through elbow. Hand shown from back, fingers only sketchily rendered. Unintelligible object above arm and blending into fascia, Background smooth. | |
Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., upper part of figured area, small patch of top surface, back. | |
Dimensions Actual: | T00.018-00.036 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.078 W00.076 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Chronology: | ? or earlier ? | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, From marble pile in inner court of museum | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Early Excavations Basket: Early Excavations, From marble pile in inner court of museum |