Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 3657 | |
Title: | HINDQUARTERS OF MARBLE PIGLET | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Object Number: | 3657 | |
Description: | Small statue of an animal, quite possibly a piglet, with plump hindquarter, the top of the back right leg and a small part of the underbelly. At the left break is an incision marking the top of the left hind leg. Surface carefully smoothed but not polished. | |
Material: | Very fine-crystal white marble | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all edges, preserving right hindquarters. Encrusted. | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.015 (leg) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.038 W00.031 T00.029 | |
Period: | Hellenistic | |
Chronology: | Hellenistic ? Or earlier | |
Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
Context: | NB279 B3 P10, LOT 2009 | |
Site: | Acrocorinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore Image: digital 2009 2287 |