| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1997 1 | |
| Title: | BOOTED LEG OF ARTEMIS, ANIMAL | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Old Number: | S-XXX-2392* (joined) | |
| Description: | Nearly life-sized standing or running Artemis with weight on left (?) leg. Figure wears a calf-length boot, tied with incised criss-crossing lines on a broad raised tongue. Beneath boot wears piloi, whichhang over top of boot; in front, decorated with lion or panther face, to proper rt. with 4 tassels, to lt. with a plain flap. Circling the top of the boot is a thick roll with diagonal grooves. Resting against the back of the leg are the hindquarters of a 4-legged animal, directed to proper rt.; its tail curls up against back of the figure's leg; its body is worked with the flat chisel. Rasping on surface of foot. For possible other parts see C-2392 (torso) and S-1616 (booted rt. leg). | |
| Mythology: | Artemis | |
| Attributes: | Boot Animal | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment of leg from just below knee to the upper shin, back half of an animal. Some traces of cement still on the surface. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.097 (leg) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.321 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman, Context Byzantine | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB898 B81 P114 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest Images (8) |
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