Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 1747 | |
Title: | RELIEF WITH THREE NYMPHS | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Object Number: | 1747 | |
Description: | Relief with three figures: farthest right is woman facing front but head turned in right profile, left arm bent and holding something (unclear). Next to and apparently slightly behind her, another female figure turned in left profile. Next to and slightly in front of her, third figure, left arm bent and identity unclear. Women wear hair bound up, well off napes of necks; nature of garments worn uncertain. | |
Mythology: | nymphs | |
Material: | White marble. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken irregularly all around, heads and upper torsos of two female figures preserved, part of arm and torso of another figure preserved, surface worn. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | max L 0.28m, max H 0.157m, max TH 0.051m | |
Findspot Description: | South basilica, east of mosaics, top soil | |
Bibliography: | Corinth 20, 2003; Kopestonsky 2016, Hesperia 85.4, p. 758, fig. 27 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: bw 4731 Image: digital 2015 2019 Image: digital 2015 2020 Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 41 (pp. 72 - 73) |