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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | S 2002 3 | Title: | | MARBLE DRAPED LEG | Category: | | Sculpture | Category Code: | | S | Year: | | 2002 | Object Number: | | 3 | Description: | | Under life-size statue of draped female, standing with weight on lt. leg, rt. leg lightly flexed. Wears peplos which is pulled by leg, forming 2 counter-curved folds to outside of knee, a thin flat projecting fold running down axis of leg below knee, and two very soft low diagonal folds along rt. side of calf; projection for fold to proper lt. of calf; to proper rt. of leg, one vertical fold flattened against leg, and projection for additional fold(s) behnd that. Shallow, narrow drill channel in upper counter-curved fold, another running along inside of fold flattened against rt. leg; surface lightly polished. | Material: | | Very fine crystalled white marble. | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving right leg from lower thigh to below calf; surface broken away down front from top to below knee; lt . Side broken away completely; broken at proper rt. Along drapery; broken in back. | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.143 W00.082 (max) | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | Chronology: | | Early Roman | Area: | | East of Theater | Context: | | NB750 B68 P143 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Monument: East of Theater
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