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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | S 674 | | Title: | | HEAD OF SILENOS | | Category: | | Sculpture | | Category Code: | | S | | Object Number: | | 674 | | Old Number: | | S-936 S-973 S-3604 lapsed | | Related Objects: | | S-XXXX-0430 | | Description: | | Head of Silenos, originally attached to a pier, over life-size. Hair recessed leaving high round forehead; hair parted in middle, with flat wavy strands framing face, roughly chiseled locks on side of head, long wavy locks to shoulders. forehead deeply furrowed, thick bushy eyebrows, deep-set eyes with heavy upper lids; incised wrinkles at outer corner. Long beard with wavy locks. Drill holes in tear ducts, possibly used to outline lt. upper lid, in broad channel that separates beard from hair; flat chisel in hair. | | Decoration: | | Traces of red paint on hair. | | Mythology: | | Silenos | | Material: | | Whtie fine-crystalled micaceous marble. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Top of head to base of rt. pupil without lower lid, lt. half face to beard; part of lt. side of head; missing nose, mouth, lt. ear, tip of beard. | | Dimensions Actual: | | L00.033 (inner corners eyes) L00.043 (lt. eye) | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.225 (old) H00.295 (new) W00.222 | | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | | Chronology: | | Hadrianic | | Area: | | Theater | | Context: | | NB18 P78 | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IX P053 N065; Corinth 20, 2003.; Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 11A | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004
Monument: Theater
Image: bw 2098b
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