Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | S 55 | |
Title: | STATUE OF DRAPED FEMALE | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Category Code: | S | |
Object Number: | 55 | |
Description: | Standing female figure, c. LS; weight on l. leg; r. leg bent at knee and set slightly back; l. arm bent at c. 90 degree angle at elbow and extended forward; l. hand at about hip level (hand dowelled on separately); r. arm originally bent sharply and brought across chest underneath drapery, with r. hand near l. shoulder lightly holding fold of cloth; wears chiton, whose crinkly folds are visible at neck and over lower parts of legs; edge of chiton falls onto top surface of plinth, covering most of both feet; over it, Greek himation is wrapped around body, over both shoulders, covering both arms; wide flat folds crossing from l. hip to r. knee; edge of himation falls vertically from l. hand to level of calf; surface for attachment of r. arm smoothed and then gouged with a point; round plinth, closely following contour of drapery; drill work in drapery folds, especially on lower part of chiton; front surfaces carefully smoothed; rasp marks visible on back; rectangular cuttings (0.04 x 0.02 m) on r. and l. sides of rear hem for fastening statue to base; copy of well-known statue type, so-called "Small Herculaneum Woman," frequently used for Roman portraits; probably a portrait.S-1180 orig. attributed to it but no such object. See there. According to Brown 2017, perhaps representing Regilla in Late Antiquity. | |
Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Lacks head (inserted), most of r. arm (cemented on), l. hand; lacks projecting parts of both feet. | |
Dimensions Actual: | W00.39 (shoulders) W00.17 (head socket) W00.07 (l. wrist) D00.28 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H01.49 | |
Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
Chronology: | 2nd century A.D., Antonine | |
Area: | Peirene | |
Context: | NB6 P37 | |
Bibliography: | AJA 1902, P424-27; Reinach, Repertoire III, 192, 11; Johnson, Lysippus, N26; Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 9; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981, P436; DeGrazia, diss, P298, N97; Brown 2017, Corinth in Late Antiquity, fig. 25 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Publication: Tucker, American Journal of Archaeolog6:4... 1902 Monument: Peirene Images (5) Basket: NB6 P37 Notebook Pages (4) |