Corinth Object: S 430
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   S 430
Title:   SILENOS
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   S
Object Number:   430
Old Number:   S-483,-485,-487,-982 lapsed
Related Objects:   S-484, -486,-675, -937, -982
Description:   Silenos, standing with weight on left leg, right drawn slightly back. Wears shaggy leggings with rows of wavy locks of hair. Over this wears a short cloak or chlamys that falls to thigh level. Cloak hangs in a series of V-shaped folds, centered over rt. side; one free end hangs down left side, weighted with small round weight. Figure engaged to a background, partly preserved between legs and to proper right of figure. Flat chisel visible on drapery, point and claw on background. For a head of this or 2nd Silenos see S-0674.
Material:   Fine-crystalled white marble with heavy micaceous veins, laminating fractures.
Condition:   Fragment. Eleven joining fragmts., figure from mid torso to above ankles; small part of background preserved between legs and to proper rt.; broken in back.
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.93 (2001)
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   Hadrianic
Area:   Theater
Context:   NB14 P67
Bibliography:   Corinth IX P053 N065; Corinth 20, 2003.; Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 11E
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004
Monument: Theater
Notebook Page: NB 13, spread 43 (p. 10)
Notebook Page: NB 26, spread 24