| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1081a | |
| Title: | STATUE OF CUIRASSED MALE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1081 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Old Number: | joined with S-1081B (lapsed) | |
| Related Objects: | S 1081C | |
| Description: | Standing male, weight on l. leg, r. leg bent and slightly to side; l. leg against vertical support; r. arm raised and extended in gesture of adlocutio, l. arm bent and held slightly away from body; wears cuirass over mid-thigh-length tunic; front of cuirass decorated in relief with gorgoneion at center top, below two winged Nikai adorning a trophy in the center, another Nike with trophy on r. epaulette; bottom of cuirass adorned with lapetts (?), leather straps fringed at ends (two rows, upper row straps 7 cm long, lower row 40 cm long); paludamentum over l. shoulder, crosses back, front of body at hips in a twisted roll, passing over l. forearm. Surface carefully finished; rasp marks on lapetts, drill work in drapery folds and between lapetts, flat and claw chisel marks on support; back not carefully finished. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Preserved from shoulders to r. knee, l. mid-thigh; lacks head (inserted), l. wrist and hand, most of r. arm, l. leg from above knee, r. leg from below knee. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.18 (head socket) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H01.40 | |
| Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | Late Hadrianic-Early Antonine | |
| Area: | Julian Basilica | |
| Context: | NB75 P215 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IX, P80, N143; Stemmer, Panzerstatuen,1978, P172; Vermeule, Berytus 13, 1959-60, N197; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P435 DeGrazia N103 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Julian Basilica Images (22) Basket: NB75 P215 |
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