Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 2013 1 | |
Title: | MARBLE RELIEF: HUMAN FACE | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Year: | 2013 | |
Object Number: | 1 | |
Description: | Possibly votive relief, with face of indeterminate sex, possibly child, fully frontal and tilted forward from relief ground, with hair and forehead in higher relief than chin. Wide face with rounded cheeks, eyes close together, small mouth, rounded chin. Hair pulled back from forehead with no visible part and bulges out to sides and top of face. Cf. T-100A and S-3704. | |
Material: | Marble, white, fine to medium grained | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving from chin to crown of head, portions of relief ground to upper right and lower left of face, facial features very worn, nose missing. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. of face from chin to crown 0.052, W. of face 0.029 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | max. p. H. 0.062, max p. W. 0.069 | |
Period: | Hellenistic | |
Chronology: | possibly, based on comparanda | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Context: | Nezi Field, context 1247 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2013 0895 Basket: Nezi Field, context 1247 |