Corinth Object: S 3657
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