| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 3821 | |
| Title: | RELIEF: LUNGING MALE FIGURE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 3821 | |
| Description: | Nude male figure in high relief; surface worked with a rasp. Slight projection at base of neck, possible edge of beard. Figure probably rested weight on right leg with left extended, held left arm diagonally across body; right arm raised and extended. Long, thin object (club?) (max. W. 0.045) across torso at waist level across navel; terminating in blunt, thickened end just beyond figure’s left side, it bends across body; looks flexible but possibly club. Along right edge, vertical channel carved with chisel, ca 0.035 from edge. Back of panel finished with claw chisel. Figure might be lunging Herakles (?). | |
| Mythology: | Herakles? | |
| Material: | Fine-grained white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Broken all around, preserved from base of neck, right shoulder, and upper arm to upper thighs; genitals broken away. Left shoulder and arm missing except for patch of armpit. Surface extensively abraded. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.10 (relief background), H. 0.09 (relief) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | P.H. 0.35, P.W. 0.36, P.Th. 0.175 (max.) | |
| Findspot Description: | Discovered uninventoried in former sculpture apotheke (= new Archaic Gallery in Museum) in 2013 when marbles moved to Synetarismos. According to M. Sturgeon (2014), does not belong with Theater metopes (although resembles in scale and style). | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: digital 2017 1915 Image: digital 2017 1916 |
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