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) |