| 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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