| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1999 18 | |
| Title: | MARBLE SMALL-SCALE STATUETTE OF ARTEMIS: RIGHT ARM | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 18 | |
| Related Objects: | S-1999-9, S-1999-17A, S-1999-17D | |
| Description: | Right arm of Artemis bent at elbow with forearm extended. Hand open with palm down; first and second fingers extended while the thumb and fourth bent to touch each other, connection actually made by small strut; position of little finger unknown. Figure wearing garment, edge of short sleeve preserved just above biceps. Arm worked separately and pinned to torso with iron pin (L. ca. 0.006); pin apparently expanded and broke upper arm. Surface of arm lightly polished except for strip down back of upper arm, which is flattened and scratched with either chisel or rasp. Part of S-1999-9. | |
| Material: | Fine white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving arm from a joining surface above the biceps to finger tips; missing part of upper arm surface, little finger, tips of first two fingers. Burning on finger tips. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L 0.037 (forearm, crease to wrist) W 0.014 (wrist) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H 0.042, L 0.095 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Roman by context; 2nd or 3rd c. according to Stirling. | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB918 B95 P123 | |
| Bibliography: | Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 4c; Sanders 2005, p. 424 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Images (5) Basket: NB918 B95 P123 Notebook Page: NB 918, spread 66 (p. 123) |
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