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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | S 3623 | | Title: | | PLINTH FRAGMENT WITH DRAPERY AND SHOD RIGHT FOOT OF FEMALE FIGURE | | Category: | | Sculpture | | Category Code: | | S | | Object Number: | | 3623 | | Decoration: | | One portion of the plinth preserves the front of a shod right foot (ca. 0.10 m long) with the shoe and the remains of drapery over the foot and on each side. The edges of the plinth are weathered, but its top edge survives. A section of the lower central edge of the plinth is broken away. The original left edge of the plinth preserves anathyrosis. The front vertical face of the plinth was finished with a claw chisel, and the bearing surface was roughly dressed with the point. The front edge of the block was beveled. The preserved length of the fragment is 0.565 m, which is over half the length of the shorter panel’s width, and a little over half that of the wider panel. Considerable blank space remains on the plinth to the left of the foot. The foot, at a right angle to the length of the plinth, emerges from the relief background, which survives to a height of only a few centimeters. The lower end of the garment, draping over the instep and onto the plinth, indicates that this figure is female. She wears a simple form of calcei muliebres, shoes that completely cover the foot and are worn out of doors. Sculpted calcei were often detailed with special straps and other features denoting official ranks for male administrators, though imperial females sometimes also wore elaborate forms. The fact that she is wearing this type of shoe may indicate that the statue represented some historical personage or personification, rather than a deity. | | Condition: | | Fragment. | | Bibliography: | | Ajootian 2014, Hesperia 83.2, cat. 9 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Ajootian, Hesperia 83:2, 2014
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