| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1368 | |
| Title: | COLOSSAL STATUE OF ATHENA | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1368 | |
| Old Number: | S-XXXX-1365 lapsed | |
| Description: | Standing draped female, lt. buttock protrudesslightly farther than rt., as if rt. leg advanced.Rt. arm at side holding fold of drapery, left upperarm at side, rt. holds owl at breast. Hair falls insolid mass in back with fine wavy grooves on surface.Two wavy forelocks over each shoulder. Wears chiton,rendered by fine wavy diagonal incisions, plainneck band; buttoned sleeves. Diagonal himation hungfrom lt. shoulder with zigzag folds on cross-band;drapery falls in front in three vertical masses ofstacked zigzag folds; in back, one central mass withshallow catenaries curving out from folds to sides ofbody. Three long bunched folds hang down back of lt.arm.Worked with flat chisel; faint rasping on drapery, back; no drill except possibly drill or bull-nose chisel separating rt. lower arm from side. See S-1348for reversal of S-1365. | |
| Material: | White fine-crystalled marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Torso from neck to hips; joins: three in all, torso from neck to hips, both arms; all of owl but beak. Surface largely discolored. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.785 (max) W00.665 (shoulders) Depth00.490 (from hand to mid-back) Depth00.57 (max) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H01.415 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Augustan ? | |
| Area: | Odeion | |
| Context: | NB96 P78 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth X P117 N1; AJA 1928, pl. 6, fig.8; Hesperia Supp. XX, 1982, cited P177; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P446; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, Corinth 10, 1932 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Publication: Williams, Hesperia Supplements 20, 1982 Monument: Odeion Images (9) Basket: NB96 P78 Notebook Page: NB 96, spread 83 (pp. 156 - 157) Notebook Page: NB 101, spread 6 (p. 1) |
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