| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1818 | |
| Title: | MARBLE FEMALE STATUE: PEPLOPHOROS | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1818 | |
| Description: | Woman stands with weight on right leg, left bent, foot slightly tunred out. Left arm at side, right bent at elbow and extended. Head turned slightly to proper right, hair apparently gathered up. Wears chiton of which buttoned sleeve apparent on right upper arm, and peplos with shallow overfold at waist. Peplos hangs in gathered folds by either arm with elaborate rendering of folds of kolpos beneath upper hem. Soft catenaries between breasts, e blind loop-folds below V-neck line. Tubular folds hang vertically over legs, sagging and resting on right foot, but ending above plinth. Pulled slightly over left leg. Back, though simpler, as well modelled as front. Piecing: right forearm set into a socket, in center of which a sqaure dowel hole; surfaces of socket ca. smoothed. Left arm placed in a concave setting, partially oblique point and claw; 3 separate dowel holes corresponding to the length of the upper arm. Left foot: surface worked with coarse rasp (?), square dowel in center for forefoot. Plinth straight across front of statue, rounded in back, roughly flat-chiseled on top, roughly picked on edges. Drill in folds, along hem of drapery. Rasp on surface of garment. | |
| Material: | Fine-Crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Complete from shoulders to feet; missing lower right arm, left arm, left foot. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 1.72 | |
| Findspot Description: | Forum Southwest | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Images (4) Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 61 (pp. 111 - 112) |
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