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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | S 3641 | | Title: | | OVER LIFE-SIZE HAND HOLDING OBJECT | | Category: | | Sculpture | | Category Code: | | S | | Object Number: | | 3641 | | Description: | | Over life-sized male left forearm and hand, worked separately and fitted into rest of arm. Better finished on back, therefore probably down at side, bare in so far as preserved, with fingers wrapped around a T-shaped object with a long shaft resting flat against inside of arm and palm, and short cross-piece ends of which project just slightly beyond hand; fingers wrapped over top, thumb from below; nerves carefully modelled on back of hand and forearm; spatulate fingers with square nails. Rounded tenon worked with flat chisel, with square pin W00.015 L00.048. Only tooling is flat chisel; back of piece well finished. | | Material: | | Micaceous fine white marble. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., nearly complete in itself, preserving lower forearm, hand; missing part of tenon, parts of lst two fingers; surfaces abraded. | | Dimensions Actual: | | L00.240 W00.076 (wrist) | | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | | Chronology: | | Early Roman | | Area: | | Early Excavations | | Context: | | Early Excavations, From Museum marble pile (no. 375) | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Early Excavations
Basket: Early Excavations, From Museum marble pile (no. 375)
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