| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 919 | |
| Title: | BEARDED MALE HEAD WITH CROSS ON FOREHEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 919 | |
| Description: | Marble head with beard, indicated by roughened surface; hair slightly raised mass with wavy grooves. Irises of eyes not marked, but treatment of hair indicates date in 3rd c. AD. | |
| Decoration: | Scratched cross on forehead, contemporary with head. | |
| Material: | Marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken off just below chin. End of nose broken. | |
| Period: | 3rd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | accoring to Corinth 9; probably 5th c. CE, according to Brown 2017 | |
| Area: | Peribolos of Apollo | |
| Context: | NB49 P128 | |
| Bibliography: | Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 178; Brown 2017, Corinth in Late Antiquity, fig. 12 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Peribolos of Apollo Images (6) Basket: NB49 P128 Notebook Page: NB 49, spread 45 (p. 128) |
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