| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1455 | |
| Title: | DRAPED FEMALE STATUE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1455 | |
| Description: | Standing draped female figure, c. life-size; weight on l. leg; r. leg bent and placed slightly back and to side; wears chiton, visible at neck and at ankles; chiton falls in crinkly folds to top of plinth, covering l. foot completely and all but toes of r. foot; wears sandal, visible on r. foot, with sole carved but no straps; Greek himation wrapped around body; r. arm bent in 90 degree angle at elbow and brought across body underneath himation, hand emerges from drapery at l. shoulder to hold edge of himation; l. arm bent slightly at elbow and down at l. side; l. arm also covered by himation except for tips of fingers; holds bunch of drapery; back of statue not carefully finished; pointing boss (?) visible on side of l. thigh; round plinth, closely following contours of statue. Head inserted separately, piece of neck still in head socket, carved from larger-crystalled, more luminous white marble than body; rasp marks on front drapery; skin surfaces carefully smoothed; drill work in drapery, especially chiton folds; flat chisel work on back; point on top of plinth. Statue copies well-known type, so-called Small Herculaneum Woman, used frequently for portraits in Roman period. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Lacks head, pieces of drapery. Left hand found later, and attached. | |
| Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | 2nd century A.D., late Hadrianic or early Antonine? | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P46 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 11, p. 145; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981, P436; DeGrazia, diss, P296, N96 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Asklepieion Images (4) Basket: NB122 P46 Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 28 (pp. 46 - 47) Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 29 (pp. 48 - 49) |
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