Corinth Object: SUR 10016
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   SUR 10016
Title:   HAIR
Category:   Sculpture
Category Code:   SUR
Object Number:   1
Object Suffix:   0016
Description:   Overlife size fragment from female (?) coiffure.Ca 5 (horizontal ?) waves of hair with plastic volume. Surface of waves is broken up with deep drilled grooves and lightly inceised lines on the surface. Resembles hair of women from Captives Façade, also pieces excavated from the Athena Trench and Sacred Spring marble deposit.
Material:   marble
Condition:   Fragment. Broken all around; signs of burning; many traces of red paint.
Dimensions Preserved:   ph 0.074, pl 0.012, pth 0.06
Findspot Description:   Found in July 2010 sculpture apotheke in a box labeled "univentoried fragments of S 1436," a cuirass statue excavated at the Odeion in the curtain channel. Found with SUR 01-0015 and 01-0017. SUR 01-0015 is from Athena Trench; this one might be also.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece