| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1433 | |
| Title: | HERMAIC STELE OF ZEUS OR ASKLEPIOS | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1433 | |
| Description: | Over life-sized head of bearded male, turned slightly to proper right and set on hermaic pillar. Hair rises up from center of forehead and falls in thick wavy locks to either side, with a single thin lock curling down over the middle of the forehead. Thick, deeply cut wavy locks, each with several incised strands, frame the sides of the face and fall in various lengths down to the base of the neck. The hair in back is rendered in shallow, incised locks. The brow is furrowed with 2 horizontal, incised lines above the heavy bro ridge. Eyebrows form a ridge above deeply set eyes. Eyes look slightly up and to proper right. The upper lids are strongly arched and are heavy, especially over the outer corners, and they overlap the lower lids, which are rendered as thick ridges. Nostrils slightly flares. Long moustache, surface of which largely broken away. Lips are full and parted. Thick, curly beard, with locks rendered like hair locks. Rasp marks are visible on the sides of the neck. Drillwork separates the hair from the face. Claw chisel marks on back of pillar. | |
| Mythology: | Zeus | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Complete head to base of neck infront and below back of hair, top of hermaic pillar. End of nose, some beard locks damaged. Surface weathered over all, gray and yellow discolouration. | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB113 P6 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Images (6) Notebook Page: NB 113, spread 8 (pp. 4 - 5) Notebook Page: NB 113, spread 9 (pp. 6 - 7) |
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