Corinth Object: S 811
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   S 811
Title:   STANDING NUDE MALE, LIFE-SIZED
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   S
Object Number:   811
Description:   Life-sized male, standing with weight on rt. leg, rt. hip and buttock pushed higher than left, lt. probably flexed. Heavy swell of iliac crest, muscular stomach and abdomen, C-shaped navel. No pubic hair.In back, groove for spiral column with deep,finger-like indentation to either side above buttocks.Projecting spur of marble on left side at and belowwaist. Narrow drill channel defining genitalia andseparating buttocks. Fine rasping (?) on surface.Identified as Apollo or Dionysos by Johnson.
Mythology:   Apollo ? Dionysos ?
Material:   Fine white-crystalled marble.
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining frgts., torso from waist down, start of left thigh, right leg to below knee. Genitalia and tip of penis broken away.
Dimensions Actual:   W00.41 (top iliac crest)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.935
Period:   Roman
Chronology:   Roman
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB39 P67
Bibliography:   Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 26
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: bw 2016
Basket: NB39 P67
Notebook Page: NB 39, spread 37 (pp. 66 - 67)