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"","2nd quarter of 2nd c. A.C. according to Corinth IX p.4-5","The piece represents a nude bearded giant in a semi-kneeling position on rt. of block, defending himself against opponent on left who has grabbed hold of his hair with his (or her) left hand.  With an anguished expression of his face, the giant looks diagonally upward at his attacker.  The giant's hair is arranged in thick, wavy clumps, which are each further subdivided into more individual strands, and which rise most plastically about the face, but lie flat over the rest of the head.  Several large locks are pulled up through the thumb and first finger of the attacker's hand.  His long moustache and full beard are of similar nature to his hair, but individual strands are not incised.  The head is in 3/4 view to left and tilted back slightly on the short, stumpy neck.  His forehead is creased, his ridged, bushy brows furrowed, his mouth slightly open.  Crow's feet are incised at the outer corner of his eye, the cheek bone highly modelled.  The giant's left arm was held high above his head, probably to grasp the hand of his attacker; his right arm extends straight out from his body to the left and is likely to have held a weapon.  His frontal torso is wide, the pectorals, thoracic divisions and the bulge above the right iliac crest are rather highly modelled.  The musculature is streched on proper left, and slightly contracted on the opposite side.  His right leg is held diagonally to the left and kneels on the plinth, but breaks off in the middle of the knees.  His left leg extends nearly in profile to right and is sharply bent at the knee so that the foot, nearly 3/4, rests flat on the plinth.  Outer surface of foot badly destroyed.  Musculature of legs subtely modelled.  Relief ground-flat and claw chisel; plinth claw; reverse unknown.","","T 28","","GIANT, HAIR BEING PULLED, KNEELING RIGHT","Gigantomachy","Corinth:Object:T 28","Object","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 2006 028 07::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/2006_028/2006_st_028_007.jpg::1193::1800",""
"","2nd quarter of 2nd c. A.C. according to Corinth IX p.4-5","The piece represents a nude giant kneeling in a predominately frontal position, leaning slightly to the right with his left arm stretched back and probably up in an attitude of defense.  Head was probably in 3/4 or profile view to left.  Claviles are very subtely modelled, while the pectorals, upper thoracic boundary and digitations are more pronounced.  The thorax bears four divisions; the central line is diagonally placed to indicate a slight torsion.  The bulge over the iliac crest is marked and makes the upper flanks look quite thin by comparison.  The abdomen bulges out slightly below the navel which is rendered by a slight depression and two parallel curved incised lines.  Below, the genitals are well preserved.  The right leg is nearly in profile to the left, the left nearly frontal; on each two grooves which meet near the top of the flanks indicate the thigh muscles.  The figure's left knee is positioned slightly ahead of the right; behind the knees, the legs become curving serpent coils in relief.  The proper right curves right, up and left; the left breaks behind the knee, another bit is preserved near the relief ground, and more appears as the base of a strut on side of the left flank.  Above this the buttocks are well modelled.  The flat chisel was used over most of the relief ground; reverse unknown.  (Smooth-Gardiner)","","T 30","","KNEELING GIANT, SERPENT LEGGED","Gigantomachy","Corinth:Object:T 30","Object","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1970 076 13::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1970_076/1970_st_076_013.jpg::1194::1800",""
"","2nd quarter of 2nd c. A.C. according to Corinth IX p.4-5","Herakles strides right, wearing lion skin over his left shoulder, holding club over same shoulder, and looks back to left.  In restored right hand he holds a chain, wrapped around, (which the only reason for attributing this figure to the Cerberus labor).  Herakles (head, facing 3/4 left, looks not down, but straight behind him.  The head is rather small, particularly at the top, in proportion to this thick neck and muscular body.  His shorts-cropped curls are carved fairly flat against his head; they grow up from the forehead in short tufts, which are directed away from the center and extend only a short distance down the back, leaving a large expanse of neck.  The forehead, triangular in shape, lends to his pin-headed appearance.  A single, incised crease extends straight across the front and down on either side above his furrowed, but not very bushy brow.  Beneath this his deep-set eyes gaze intently at something behind him.  The eyeballs bulge outward and recede into the side of his face at the outer corners.  The lids are marked by light, incised lines.  The nose is straight, the tip chipped off; cheeks are gently modelled.  His face becomes much wider at the level of the cheeks than it was at the forehead, and the bottom-heavy appearance is intensified by his extremely full beard and stocky neck.  A long moustache droops on either side of a short, full mouth, corner of which droop down in almost a snear.  The thick locks of the beard divide and curl away from a central part.  Although the beard is extremely thick, the locks are not deeply carved and show none of the usual sculptural attempts at depth.  The rest of the body is concentrated in movement toward the right.  The sterno-mastoid is powerfully modelled to indicate the twist of the head, below which the clavicles appear in front position.  A horizontal below this is shifted slightly to the right, below which the pectorals the lower boudary of the thorax, and digitations follow suit and are powerfully modelled.  The abdomen and the bulge over the iliac crest are competently carved; the genitals are nearly intact.  Herakles' left leg, in profile to right, is bent at the knee and supports most of his weight, though the muscles are not as contracted.  The right leg is nearly frontal or turned slightly left.  Muscles of the left leg project a moderate amount; the calf and ankles are rather thick.  In the right, bulging muscles give the impression of strength and strain within the figure.  The tibia extends into the knee in a peculiar fashion, making the kneecap appear quite narrow.  This leg is separated from the background, but is roughly worked forming a long ridge in back, which ends rather awkwardly at the buttocks.  A full lion skin hands vertically from his left shoulder; the head, appearing at waist level, is square, the mouth hanging open, teeth visible.  Two legs of the skin hang from the forearm, one nearly vertical in low relief, the other swings left behind his left leg and develops a long even fold which with the area around it creates light shadows and contribute to the depth of the skin.  Four wide coverings for claws are carved at the end of each paw.  No attempt is made at lending texture to the skin.  Six drill holes spotlight the convolutions in the head.  The eyes are tightly closed under protruding brows.  Although the lion is quiet, his skin adds motion and life to the compostion.  The club, which extends diagonally behind his head, is embellished with oval-shaped knots in low relief.  It is not in position for imminent use.  Background:  mostly claw chisel, except directly around the figure where the flat is used; plinth:  top - point, front - claw, side border, point (rough); reverse, rough.","","T 31","","""HERAKLES AND CERBERUS,"" HERAKLES STRIDING RIGHT WITH CLUB AND LION SKIN","Miscellaneous | Theater-Shear Excavations","Corinth:Object:T 31","Object","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2012  0749::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2012 season photos/2012_0749.jpg::1285::1800",""
"","2nd quarter of 2nd c. A.C. according to Corinth IX p.4-5","Preserves lower part of draped goddess striding to right on plinth.  The fragment is broken diagonally from about the proper right knee to the level of the left ankle, which, however, is not preserved.  The goddess' right foot peaks, clad, from under the voluminous folds of the chiton, which is worn open on the figure's right.  The folds fall flush against the floor of the plinth, from which they are separated by a deep running drill channel.  The weight of the folds cause them to fall back slightly above the plinth and bend in varying degrees to the right.  To the right of the leg the folds are organized by deeper, wider channels (these apperar deeper in photo than really are) into 4 groups, each of which contains 3 or more subdivisions.  The group nearest the leg, which is the largest, also enacts the sharpest bend to the right and is likely to have continued up the figure to form a strong diagonal line in the composition and to carry the spectator's eye in the direction of the figure's movement and toward the center of the action, on the right.  The drapery assumes transparency  over part of the leg so as to reveal its form.  The foot seems unusually large.  The relief ground is worked both by the claw and flat chisels, the plinth only by the claw; smooth reverse.","","T 37","","GODDESS STRIDING RIGHT","Gigantomachy","Corinth:Object:T 37","Object","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1974 012 18::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1974_012/1974_sh_012_018.jpg::1800::1431",""
"","","Presents a male god striding, left leg forward, to right.  The almost profile head tops a 3/4 right torso, legs - l. profile, l. frontal.  His hair, rendered in long, wavy strands, is combed from a central point on the skull toward the face and bound by a fillet.  The figure once had a full, wavy beard.  The forehead is marked only by a thin, shallow crease (incised) and the nose seems to have extended straight down from it.  The figure's right eye is destroyed, but the left is indistinct and appears to be unfinished.  The majestic figure had broad, powerful shoulders, and well-modelled clavicles.  The god wears only a himation, draped from the left shoulder, around the right hip, back to the left arm.  One section of it, having curved around the left arm, apperas to be blown upwards; the other end hangs in long, vertical folds at the right.  The drapery acquires transparency as it is pulled across the legs; between the legs long, diagonal folds are rendered alternately by light incisions or shallow ridges, which continue in lower relief over the legs.  Medium shadows are created between the legs, darker ones on the right to create an outline to the advanced leg.  To the right of the drapery, beyond a bit of relief ground, is preserved a tip either of drapery or perhaps of a weapon.  The bottom edge of the himation is preserved, but is not undercut; top edge remains only on proper left, below the small bit of abdomen.  The right edge of the hanging folds is marked by the flat chisel which creates a series of ridges perpendicular to the background.  The relief ground is worked by flat and claw chisels; running dr. in fold at shoulders; reverse unknown. (Smooth-Gardiner)","","T 106","","MALE GOD STRIDING RIGHT IN HIMATION","Miscellaneous | Theater-Shear Excavations","Corinth:Object:T 106","Object","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1972 059 13::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1972_059/1972_sh_059_013.jpg::1425::1800",""
"","Hadrianic","Relief, back of which sawn smooth, front worked with claw chisel. On it in relief is a griffin paw, presumably raised from ground, and directed rt. Preserved are parts of 4 toes with claws. Toes carved with flat chisel. See T-0029.","","T 150","","RELIEF OF GRIFFIN: CLAW TO RIGHT","Griffin","Corinth:Object:T 150","Object","1925;1930","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1970 093 20::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1970_093/1970_st_093_020.jpg::1800::1206",""
"","Hadrianic (MS)","Sea monster with ferocious head on curved neck; creature’s face distinguished by detailed carving. Two round knobs project at base of nose flanked by two horn-like projections at right and one or two at left. The two at left are mostly lost, but drillwork outlining them marks their location. The two at right extend forward, the two at left are positioned farther back on head, so both pairs would have been visible. Two round projections also emerge from top of nose.  Long jaw opened, teeth bared, tongue extends forward, thickening before it extends from mouth. Strong modeling marks furrowed cheeks, arched eyebrow and round, beady eye. Skin pulled back in comma-shaped patterns above and below mouth.  In back, upper and lower parts of jaw smoothed, but middle portion separated from background by a series of channels made by a running drill.  Tool marks indicate that the drill was applied from back of jaw toward front.  Hence, it would have been possible to carve the ketos if it occurred to the right of a high-relief head.  Piece probably attached to one of sections of theater façade, and so it would have projected considerably from the background with monster’s head facing to our left. Working of head much more detailed than snakes of Gigantomachy reliefs. Thus, it probably belongs to pair of high-relief heads, where a sea monster would form an attributive function comparable to dolphins. One of dolphins similarly has a lot of detail, and it projects about 0.167-0.17 from background plane.  Ketos projects ca. 0.147 from architectural block. The difference of ca. 0.20 may have been taken up by the drapery or hair from which it emerged. The nearly rectangular shape of the joining surface (ca. 0.04 x 0.06) suggests that the ketos’s neck once was attached to a neck segment that emerged from the figure’s hair or drapery.  This ketos may go with the head of the Nereid (or Aphrodite), Corinth IX, iii, p. 85, no. 9.  See bust from Aphrodisias that has been recognized as a Nereid, which has one dolphin and two ketoi, Corinth IX, iii, p. 91, note 156, LIMC VI, p. 820, no. 486, s.v. Nereides (Icard-Gianolio, Szabados). With the addition of the ketos, the identification of the Corinth bust as a Nereid is strengthened. Cf. also S-666, Corinth IX, iii, p. 86, no. 10K, which may come from the neck of another sea monster. MS also checked the piece against S-3595, catalogue 10 H, and it doesn’t belong. Head and neck show heavy weathering and water erosion along upper and outer surfaces. A white gash across the mouth probably results from the excavator’s pick.","","S 957","","SEA MONSTER (KETOS)","Nereid","Corinth:Object:S 957","Object","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1966 007 16::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1966_007/1966_st_007_016.jpg::1800::1183",""
"","2nd quarter of 2nd c. A.C. according to Corinth IX p.4-5","The block represents 3 birds, in relief, who form the only known remains of Herakles' labor against the Stymphalian Birds.  The birds are arranged one above the other in a scene which is put together from many fragments.  The top bird is in flight, facing left, his right wing fully raised above his body.  His oval wing feathers (12 preserved) each have central ridges carved in low relief, except for the upper 2 in the last row which are incised.  His long, rounded body is covered with long feathers, arranged in rows, which curve in opposite directions in each row.  The base of his left wing can be seen just above the middle bird.  The fragment is broken at the base of the tail and neck, and the outer half of the right wing is missing.  Another fragment, which does not, however, join with the previous, gives us the pointed wing tip and a small fragment of the tail.  His feet, pulled halfway under his body, are hidden by the wing of the middle bird.  The middle bird stands upright with one foot resting on the dead bird below, while its head rises in front of the upper bird's body.  The front part of its beak is missing; its eye looks forward; its cheek bones and mouth are modelled.  The pointed head rises from a long, cylindrical neck which curves gently upwards from its body.  Its left wing is raised, as if preparatory to flight; it is carved in very high relief, and is deeply undercut.  The right foot reaches forward, its 3 talons viciously outstretched.  The tail falls back and to the right, inside facing out.  The feathers of the wing and of the area just under the wing are oval and have 1 or 2 cental ridges modelled lightly.  Feathers covering the neck, body and legs, are of the long, pointed variety, which are arranged in rows and curve alternately right or left.  The widely spread talons of the latter's left foot rest on a third bird, of the same species, who must certainly be dead.  The latter lies, wings folded, on the ground, his legs stretched straight behind him, his long neck curving down toward the plinth where his head must have rested.  His feathers are arranged in a manner similar to the living birds, although since his wings are folded the long straight feathers at the end can be seen.  The end of his tail appears just beneath the wing tip.  The claws are quite short and tame, compared with the bird above.  His chest, which is barely visible, has been only roughly picked.  A continuous groove separates his body from the top surface of the plinth, which he barely touches.  To right of the mid. bird, a long, curved groove must be a later mishap.","","S 518","","STYMPHALIAN BIRDS","Labors of Hearkles","Corinth:Object:S 518","Object","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw  0375::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/0001-0999/0375_gp.jpg::1330::1800",""