| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 614 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC LIFE-SIZED LEFT KNEE OF NUDE MALE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 614 | |
| Description: | Left leg of standing, life-sized male statue. Rounded kneecap, above which pronounced muscles making a deep V. Vastus internus bulging with rounded contours, descends slightly lower than vastus externus and appears to cross over it above kneecap; inside of leg makes rounded contour curving into lower leg. Vastus externus flattened on outside of leg,flattening continuing down to start of lower leg with a faint shallow vertical groove in this area. Kneecap continues smoothly into shin bone; all surfaces rounded without sharp, linear articulation. For parallels see Richter, Kouroi, N078 from Samos - earlier, N110-111 from Delos. | |
| Material: | Coarse-crystalled white island marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., front half leg, knee with start of lower leg and of thigh. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.133 W00.109 (through knee) | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Ca. Mid 6th c. | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, From miscellaneous fragments of various yearsthrou | |
| Bibliography: | Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P423 ("rt. knee"); Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Early Excavations Basket: Early Excavations, From miscellaneous fragments of various yearsthrou |
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