| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 389 | |
| Title: | SEMI-DRAPED STATUE OF AN EMPEROR | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 389 | |
| Description: | Over life-size statue of a man standing on right leg, left bent but forward. Right arm apparently at side, left bent, forearm extended. Wears a himation which covers left shoulder and side, body from hips to knees, with left leg exposed to thigh, then hangs down from left forearm, finishing against support in an incised fringed edge. Both drill and claw chisel on drapery, which was then rapsed and painted red. Flesh parts worked with flat chisel, then finely rasped and smoothly finished. Back scarcely modelled; body flat, drapery blocked out in slight, broad folds. Left elbow pieced separately. Tree trunk support, behind left leg, mostly covered by drapery at proper left. Its back is roughly finished with a point, front slightly better with a chisel. Top of plinth worked with point. | |
| Material: | White fine to medium-grained marble; streaky with mica; Pantelic | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Nine joining fragments and the edges of some folds; broken from the base of the neck through the right shoulder, and through the left lower calf and right ankle. Missing chips from central front, outer surface of back, and the edges of many folds. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. at neck break 0.157, W. waist 0.363, Th. waist 0.310, H. sternal notch to top of plinth 1.71, H. navel to top plinth 1.18, W. at shoulders 0.63, tree trunk: H. 0.45, W. 0.227, Th. 0.280. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. top of left shoulder to top of plinth 1.71 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Tiberian or Claudian | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 20, 2003.; Corinth 9.3, 2004, cat. 2; Hesperia 1981, p. 434; DeGrazia, Portraits (Diss.) N105. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004 Image: bw 1966 006 06 Image: digital 2019 1921 Image: digital 2019 1922 |
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