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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | S 3648 | | Title: | | LARGE-SCALE DRAPED FIGURE WITH HAIR | | Category: | | Sculpture | | Category Code: | | S | | Object Number: | | 3648 | | Description: | | A segment of an over life-size standing figure. Preserved is a curved portion of anatomy, flatter and curving in more steeply at left than right; drapery pulled more tautly at top, over which hangs one of probably 2-3 curling locks of hair; large oblique fold, now sheared away, descends at a diagonal towards center from upper rt.; beneath this shallow folds hang vertically. Central element, marking highest projection of surface (breast ?), broken away; beneath it drapey falls free of anatomy in two deep tubular folds - that at lt. in higher relief than that at rt. Surface carefully finished. Not clear whether hair is human or animal. | | Material: | | White marble, fine to medium-crystalled, possibly micaceous | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around; front partly sliced away; encrusted. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.234 W00.178 T00.058 m. | | Period: | | Roman | | Chronology: | | Roman | | Area: | | Probably Shear Excavations Theater | | Context: | | Probably Shear Excavations Theater, From the Old Museum, lying outside Shear Apotheke | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Probably Shear Excavations Theater
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