| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1999 17a | |
| Title: | MARBLE SMALL-SCALE STATUETTE OF ARTEMIS: LEFT ARM WITH BILLOWING DRAPERY | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 17 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | S-1999-9, S-1999-17D, S-1999-18 | |
| Description: | A small-scale statuette depicts Artemis with lt. arm extended out to side, enveloped in a billowing mantle. The mantle is wrapped over the left forearm, from which it blows up in 4 deep folds; the folds swing to proper rt., then curve out to proper lt, one ending in a closed omega. From the back of the arm the mantle curves up like a sail, stretched tightly behind the missing head; smooth in back, its front surface is broken by 4 shallow straight folds; the mantle curves down toward the waist where it was probably gathered, and from this point the end billows out to the side in 3 plastic folds.three plastic folds. All surfaces are polished. Drill channels are visible in the folds, and rasping appears on some of the folds. Belongs with S-1999-9, S-1999-17D, S-1999-18. For type see LIMC, s.v. Artemis/Diana no. 142. | |
| Material: | Fine white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Ca. 10 joining frgts., left arm from above elbow to above wrist, and billowing drapery. Surfaces partly burned. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.067 (stretched drapery) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | MPCordL00.203 H00.093 (forearm to drapery tip) | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Roman by context; 2nd or 3rd c. according to Stirling. | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB918 B95 P123 | |
| Bibliography: | Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 4b; Sanders 2005, p. 424 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Images (5) Basket: NB918 B95 P123 |
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