| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 890 | |
| Title: | PORTRAIT MEDALLION IN PEDIMENT | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 890 | |
| Description: | Portrait medallion on central tympanum block of small pediment; very high relief; rough-picked on back and l. side of block; r. side somewhat better finished with rough point; dowel hole in top edge. Portrait of middle-aged man; bust showing upper half of chest; wears fillet and ivy (?) wreath; tunic and himation; short beard; hair combed forward around face in comma-shaped locks curving inward toward central point over forehead; two vertical lines incised in center of brow; sharply carved eyebrows; eyes have prominent upper lids; flat eyeball and shallowly drilled pupils; pupil almost touches upper lid; inner corners of eyes and nostrils drilled; cheeks broad and flat; ears coarsely executed and placed slightly too low on head; drapery flat and summarily executed; folds lightly drilled; chisel marks on background; outer edge of frame decorated with continuous floral pattern which originates in symmetrical leaf motif at bottom of bust; head connected to background by rough-picked bridge; top of head not carefully finished; surface very weathered; identity of portrait unknown. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete except for breaks at nose, and chin of portrait | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.55 (center), H. 0.42 (sides), W. 0.725, W. 0.59 (exteriortondo), W. 0.39 (interior tondo), Th. 0.145 (block), Th. 0.28 (relief), W. 0.41 (shoulders), H. 0.172 (face), W. 0.16 (temples), W. 0.04 (inner eyes) | |
| Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | 2nd century A.D., Hadrianic | |
| Area: | Northwest Shops Forum, northwest | |
| Context: | NB50 P85 | |
| Bibliography: | Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 173; Winkes, Clipeata Imago 1969, P175; AM 1937, P78; Beratti, Le Arti, 1942, P173, fig10; Heintze, Imago Clipeata, P46, N24; Jucker, Bildnis im Blatterkelch, P149; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981, P436; DeGrazia, diss, cat. 21, p. 132; Brown 2017, Corinth in Late Antiquity, fig. 34 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Northwest Shops Forum, northwest Image: bw 0747 Image: bw 2061 Basket: NB50 P85 |
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