| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 986 | |
| Title: | LATE ROMAN PORTRAIT OF WOMAN | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 986 | |
| Description: | Large-scale head of woman, wearing headdress; at back this folds over a band that circles head and crosses on top of cloth in front. Two small stylized waves of hair curve out over center of forehead. Face a smooth oval, forehead low and triangular; eyebrows arched and almost touch headdress at tips, joining nose in center; lid nearly flat against eyeball. Smooth cheeks, small curved mouth. Line of jaw blurred and indistinct. Nostrils drilled. Surface finished with rasp; headdress separated from skin by running drill. On headdress above forehead, an incised inverted U with vertical stroke within. | |
| Material: | White fine-crystalled marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Head, neck; missing front of lower half of neck; rt. rear side of headdress chipped, also most of hair framing face; nose largely missing, chin and lower lip chipped. Black stains on head and face. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.21 (head) W00.205 Depth00.23 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.33 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | early 6th c. A.C., according to DeGrazia; ca. 400, according to Brown 2017 | |
| Area: | Peribolos of Apollo | |
| Context: | NB65 P76 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IX N164 P087; DeGrazia Diss. N063; Hesperia 1981 P448; L. Jesse in Festschrift M. Wagner; Brown 2017, Corinth in Late Antiquity, fig. 24 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Monument: Peribolos of Apollo Images (8) Basket: NB65 P76 Notebook Page: NB 65, spread 43 (p. 77) |
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