| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1999 13 | |
| Title: | MARBLE LARGE-SCALE STATUETTE OF ARTEMIS: PLINTH, FOOT | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 13 | |
| Related Objects: | S-1999-10, S-1999-21, S-1999-3, S-1999-19A, S-1999-19B, S-1999-20, S-2000-1, S-2000-4, S-1999-17B, S-1999-17C. | |
| Description: | Standing figure, rt. foot in advance of left, and turned out ca. 45 degrees from front. Figure wears boots, surface of which smooth. Rt. leg supported by a tree trunk; tree worked in part with rasp, lower part roughly picked; separated from foot by broad drill channel. No drill outlining either tree or feet. Top surface of plinth smooth, sloping down from back to front; area between legs finished more carefully, rasp visible; back and behind rt. foot preserves flat chisel; sides very roughly picked with punch. Underside worked in rows of long oblique point strokes, but not all rows parallel. Added join: lt. foreleg: leg turned out 45 degrees but missing knee also thrust foreward. Wears calf-ht. boot with roll around top; back half of sole of foot carved free of plinth, attached at heel and ball. Surface of leg polished. | |
| Decoration: | On top surface, impression of rusticated surface (?) given by large circles painted in red, to suggest rocky ground; side surfaces completely painted red, with this overlapping back top in a broad band. Red on tree trunk also. | |
| Mythology: | Artemis | |
| Attributes: | Boots | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Numerous joining frgts., preserving right foot, lt. ankle, part of heel; lower third of tree trunk support; most of plinth, missing front corner by lt. foot. Heavily calcined and burned when found. Added join 2001: lt. lower leg (S-1999-21) | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.094 (rt. foot) W00.034 (ball, rt. foot) W00.182 (plinth) H00.064-00.079 (plinth) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.17 W00.27 (plinth) H00.238 (2001) | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early 4th c. A.C.; mid 3rd c. or later according to Stirling | |
| Bibliography: | Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 7b; Sanders 2005, p. 424 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stirling, Hesperia 77:1, 2008 Images (11) |
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