Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | SF 2015 1 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA SCULPTURE: DRAPED FEMALE | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | SF | |
Year: | 2015 | |
Object Number: | 1 | |
Description: | Terracotta sculpture of draped female with slightly domed or peaked platform serving as base. Standing female figure with wide horizontal stride with leading right leg and stationary left leg, swirling drapery consisting of six deep vertical folds, two of which fall away from right leg while another wraps around it, left leg barely outlined on right edge. Likely that part of foot and maybe lower leg protruded originally from drapery but now broken off. Similar to Danner 1989, nos. 164 and 169a, Nike figure? | |
Decoration: | White paint all over. | |
Mythology: | Nike? | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay, with frequent small platy angular red inclusions, few small spherical angular black inclusions, rare large tabular angular red inclusions, and rare medium spherical sub-rounded voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Six joining frgts., preserving one flat original edge (back?), two legs from foot to knee with drapery in between. Surface stained by iron at one side and at breaks joins with non-stained frgts. Traces of platform base preserved. Traces of white paint. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.153, L. 0.23 | |
Weight Description: | 1.29 | |
Weight: | 1.29 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Hellenistic to Early Roman based on context | |
Area: | South Stoa | |
Context: | South Stoa, context 125 | |
South Stoa, context 123 | ||
South Stoa, context 112 | ||
South Stoa, context 125, LOT 2015 088 | ||
LOT 2015 088 | ||
LOT 2015 086 | ||
Provenance: | Corinth? | |
Bibliography: | James 2019, Hesperia 88.1, cat. 32 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: digital 2015 3594 Basket: South Stoa, context 112 Basket: South Stoa, context 123 Basket: South Stoa, context 125 |