| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 386 | |
| Title: | DORYPHOROS HEAD | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 386 | |
| Related Objects: | SC-51 | |
| Description: | Head of young man, with short curling locks carved flatly, and radiating from top of head, framing a low, furrowed brow, sharp brow ridge, deep-set eyes with upper lif a heavy ridge, lower a deep "bag", offset from cheeks. Long straight nose. Lips not parted. Muscular neck with throat modeled from rest of neck. Flat chisel tooling visible all over skin. Note: in 1987 attempted to remove nose, which appeared to be of plaster. Was actually plaster over decomposing marble. Marble was removed, consolidated with barium hydroxide, H2NCONH2, glycerine and water, then reglued. Nov. 2, 2000: Head sent to Lausanne, Olympic Museum for 4 years. 2007: Never went to Lausanne; instead to Olympia Museum where it still is ( | |
| Decoration: | Red paint in hair and on lips, pupils of eyes. Black outline for eye lids drawn on eyeball. | |
| Material: | Fine white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Several joining frgts., head to start of neck; nose mended but largely original, chin restored in plaster. Proper left side of head more weathered than right. Skin parts not well finished. | |
| Findspot Description: | Shear Excavations, Theater, east end of stage, 1.00m above orchestra level. May 28, 1926. | |
| Bibliography: | Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 20A; AJA 1926,p. 462, fig. 15; Hesperia 1981 p. 434 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004 Images (4) |
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