Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 427 | |
Title: | STATUE OF NEMESIS OR TYCHE | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Object Number: | 427 | |
Description: | Life-sized statue of draped female, stands with weight on rt. leg, lt. bent slightly at knee, set just forward with foot turned partly to side. Wears himation over Ionic chiton. Himation would have hung diagonally from left shoulder and falls to just above rt. ankle, slightly higher above left. Himation falls in thick rounded vertical folds down left side, radiate across front from left shoulder area, around rt. leg. Folds broad, divided by thick ridges over left leg and lower rt. Become narrow around upper rt. thigh and hip. Similar arrangement in back. The thinner chiton falls in vertical folds almost to plinth. Lightly incised line over the feet suggests press-fold. Feet sandled, strap between first and second toe visible on rt. foot. On plinth beside right foot is part of a large wheel, with trace of a spoke. Broken projection on side of rt. knee probably for upper part of wheel. Rasp marks on drapery, feet polished. Plinth marks in back near wheel. F.P. Johnson: Nemesis or Tyche | |
Material: | Fine crystalled white marble, with grayish streaks. | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Single fragment, figure from waist to plinth; ridges of most folds damaged, as also left knee and tops of toes. Part of back of plinth missing. Yellowish discolouration, splotchy on himation. | |
Dimensions Actual: | W. at hips 0.465, H. plinth 0.06, W. plinth 0.67 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. figure 0.975 | |
Area: | Northwest Stoa | |
Context: | NB13 P53 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IX, p12, n6; Ridgway, Severe Style, p.72-73, n.7; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981, p.440; Schlorb-Vierneisel, Klass. Sk. Glyp. Munchen, p. 223, n. 216, forerunner of Kore Albani. Kane, AJA 1985, p. 456 ff; Harriso, Archaic into Early Classical 1985; Poulsen, Der Streage Stil, p.65; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Northwest Stoa Image: bw 2019 Image: bw 2020 Image: bw 5640 Notebook Page: NB 13, spread 31 (p. 53) Notebook Page: NB 15, spread 26 (p. 44) |