| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 819 | |
| Title: | LATE ROMAN DRAPED MALE: MAGISTRATE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 819 | |
| Description: | Draped standing male, weight on r. leg, l. leg slightly relaxed to side, wearing knee-length sleeved tunic, belted at waist (belt visible at r. side), over which is a heavy mantle clasped with pin at r. shoulder and open at r. side, mantle reaches to feet; r. arm bent at elbow and drawn across chest, holding orb; l. arm at side, underneath mantle; drapery rendered with broad flat folds, separated by broad flat valleys; over lt. forearm, shallowly incised catenaries; from knees down mantle folds broken into thinner folds, as if from a chiton, over rt. leg and center; over lt. lower leg continue as broad folds; wearing ankle-ht. shoes with indentation between first 2 toes, lt. shoe thick-soled, rt. not. Back not modelled; flat chisel work, with 2 horizontal "folds" at shoulder ht., below which band W0.10 of raised point work. Smooth surface, some rasp visible.Some drill work in folds over lower legs. Rectangular plinth; dowel hole in center front 0.345 from rt. edge 00.035 x 00.025 x 00.033; flat chisel work; patch 0.08 m. wide of coarse point to proper rt. of rt. foot where something trimmed away. Statue recut from earlier statue ? | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with micaceous veins (?) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining frgts., figure from shoulders to feet, plinth. Lacks head, fragments from l. side at knee, front of l. foot. Plinth: full depth preserved, missing lt. edge, front and back rt. corners. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.47 (shoulders) Depth00.31 H00.10 (plinth) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H01.70 L00.54 (Plinth | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | First half 6th c. | |
| Area: | Northwest Shops | |
| Context: | Northwest Shops, Built into late wall, continuing line of W limit o | |
| Findspot Description: | Found in 1905 in wall at west end of NW Shops with S-820. | |
| Bibliography: | Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 327 DeGrazia cat. 90; Brown 2017, Corinth in Late Antiquity, fig. 29, fig. 30; Brown 2012, Hesperia 81.1, figs. 13, 14 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Monument: Northwest Shops Images (7) Basket: Northwest Shops, Built into late wall, continuing line of W limit o |
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