Corinth Object: S 1748
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   S 1748
Title:   RELIEF OF DRAPED FEMALE
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   S
Object Number:   1748
Description:   Large relief preserving seated torso of woman, ca. life-size, turned 3/4 to lt. Lt arm bent, held close to body, small box in hand. Wears chiton and himation, roll of himation crosses from r. hip, between breasts, over l. shoulder, covering l. arm. Drill perhaps used in some folds; surface extremely battered and weathered; back of relief roughly worked with point.
Material:   Fine-crystalled white marble
Condition:   Fragment. Lacks head, neck, r. shoulder and arm, body below waist.
Dimensions Actual:   T00.08 (background) T00.125 (max. relief) L00.25 (elbow to wrist)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.64 W00.39
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   ?
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB140 P116
Bibliography:   ohnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 137; AJA 1975 P118 N26; Vermeule, Roman Imperial Art PP194 F123; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P433; DeGrazia N013; Fittschen, "I Ritratti di Germanico," Germanico P217 F44.46.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980
Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981
Monument: Forum southwest
Image: bw 4728
Basket: NB140 P116
Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 64 (pp. 116 - 117)