| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 3356 | |
| Title: | STATUE OF CUIRASSED MALE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 3356 | |
| Description: | Torso of standing male figure, over life-size, wearing cuirass; weight on r. leg; l. leg bent and set somewhat forward; r. arm, broken just below armpit, raised; l. arm held down; head worked separately and inserted; innersurface of socket picked; cuirass is undecorated, showing musculature of torso; double row of fringed leather straps attached to lower edge of breastplate, longerone reaching to mid-thigh level; fringed tabs around armholes; cingulum wrapped twice around chest, knotted over stomach; ends tucked under upper band,hanging down to lower edge of breastplate;baldric hanging diagonally from r. shoulder;area for scabbord rough-picked at l. side;wears tunic beneath cuirass, visible around upper part of legs, and chlamys over cuirass,fastened at r. shoulder and hanging down back; traces of piecing and dowel hold on r. arm; joint lightly picked, running back to top of shoulder and folds at side of neck; l. arm shows reworking with pick; back roughly worked; large socket centered under crotch W0.272, Depth0.22, H0.25. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with some veins | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Preserves torso from shoulders to lowerthigh; lacks both arms. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.63 (shoulders) D00.33 (chest) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H01.10 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Hellenistic | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB144 P111 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 1977; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981, P429.; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Forum southwest Basket: NB144 P111 Notebook Page: NB 144, spread 61 (pp. 111 - 112) |
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