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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | T 13 | | Title: | | HERAKLES AND ERYMANTHIAN BOAR | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | T | | Object Number: | | 13 | | Description: | | The weary Herakles stands, resting his left hand on his club, and contemplating the dead Erymanthian boar, which lies at his feet. The figure, who reflects the Lysippean "Weary Herakles" type, poses 3/4 left; his small head sinks down onto his chest. He wars his hair in short, wavy locks carved close to the head, which is unfinished on proper right. His moustache and full beard are thicker, but not deeply carved (the chisel is used only, no running drill). Curls part slightly in center of beard. His hair stops halfway down the back of his thick neck. A trace of yellow paint is preserved on the left eyeball. The eyes are very lightly carved and not deeply set. The surface of forehead and cheeks show subtle modelling and render the face expressionless. End of nose is chipped. The shourt mouth turns down at the corners. The left ear is small. The figure has a powerful left shoulder which is rendered with restraint, as is the musculature of the torso, Grooves are narrow and shallow, the flesh between them almost flat, so that the outer surface appears to hide his dynamic strength, rather than reveal it. Pectoral muscles are both chipped at the nipples. Herakles holds his lion skin in his left forearm, placed against his hip. Only part of the head remains; an incised line renders the closed eye; the pointed mane curves back lies flat. Traces of yellow paint occur also in the lion's mane. The drill channel which separates it from the torso has been smoothed with the chisel. Workmanship of this fragment is excellent. In the section restored with Herakles, a sketchy right hand rests on the end of the knotted club. The Erymanthian boar lies peacuflly on his stomach, which is perched on a rockpile with his legs supposedlt hanging straight down on either side. It is difficult to to imagine the short legged, limp animal here as the terrifying beast of the legend. His head is quite large in proportion to the rest of the body. The top of the ear is chipped; the eye is creased shut; the long snout turns up at the end; the mouth appears to smile faintly. The whole is actively modelled. Short locks cover the body and curve in opposite directions. His uncloven hooves have a single fetlock at back; the forelegs have no joints and are, like the rear legs, thick in proportion to their length. A thin tail hangs down the back, separated by an unsmoothed drill channel from his rear leg. Treatment of the boar as a whole is flat. Separation of club from background shows a similar lack of finish. The rocks are carved with the point as irregular lumps. The composition is spacious; the area between Herakles' shoulder and right border is 0.270m., bet. his head and top, 0.090m., between boar's rear and top, 0.290m. | | Mythology: | | Labors of Herakles | | Material: | | White, fine-grained marble. Blue veins. | | Condition: | | Fragment. 2 non-joining sections: Herakles section, 4 joining fragments; Boar section, 2 joining fragments. Restored: Boar: top and middle of body, parts of rocks beneath; Herakles: right arm and wrist, back of head, end of club. 3 cuttings for hook clamps on top. | | Manufacture: | | Background - claw and flat; reverse, smooth. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. max 0.390, W. top border 1.054, L. max of Boar 0.600 H. withers 0.345, W. max Boar Head 0.230 (nose to top of ear) | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. at boar's rear 0.390, H. of Herakles 0.295, H. of Herakles head 0.120, W. of Herakles head 0.080, W. of Herakles waist 0.124 | | Dimensions Restored: | | H. to plinth 0.788 | | Period: | | 2nd c. A.C. | | Chronology: | | 2nd quarter of 2nd c. A.C. according to Corinth IX p.4-5 | | Bibliography: | | Sturgeon, 1977, Corinth IX.2 H 13-1 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Image: bw 8709
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