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) |