| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 3649 | |
| Title: | OVER LIFE-SIZE LEFT HAND | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 3649 | |
| Description: | An over life-size left hand preserved next to a small segment of drapery. Two small areas of Silenos hair at each side of wrist and edge of hair crossing middle ties in to Silenoi from Theater. Hand holds a short object with flared end that extends one finger's width beyond end of little finger, outer edge of which not carved. Object has flat lower surface but stops at thumb. Back of hand somewhat sketchily finished. As hand flexed back on wrist and back rough, arm probably holding something up like wine skin. | |
| Material: | White fine-crystalled, heavily micaceous marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken through wrist, missing most of thumb, first finger. Heavily weathered on back of hand. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.158 (hand) W00.182 (hand, object) T00.116 (hand) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.255 L00.155 (drapery) W00.054 (drapery) | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | First half 2nd c. | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, From Museum marble pile, provenance uncertain | |
| Bibliography: | Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 12E | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004 Monument: Theater |
|
Show Everything (259,852) Publications (1,214) Reports (75) Places and Monuments (297) Plans and Drawings (2,887) Images (88,930) Objects (70,348) Coins (18,459) Notebooks (443) Classifications Sign in Provide feedback |
|