| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1999 2 | |
| Title: | MARBLE STATUETTE: HERAKLES | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Male figure, nude, leaning against tree to proper lt. with weight on right leg, foot turned out, relaxed left leg and foot forward, right arm behind back with hand, palm out, resting on rt. buttock, lt. elbow on tree, forearm possibly extended. From break at neck, head bearded; musculature pronounced. Tree trunk covered by lion skin and possibly folded drapery; at base of tree sits a small child in Temple Boy position with rt. leg bent, lt. leg flat; behind him is a seated deer, head turned forward and circled by child's lt. arm. 0.01 raised boss on left thigh 0.011 m. above knee, possibly a pointing boss. Rasp marks on most of figure. Drill hole in inner side of left buttock. Drill channel between buttocks. Plinth slopes down from back to front, rough surfaces on top and sides, made by flat chisel, drill channel outlining feet and seated child. Herakles Farnese type with Telephos and deer. | |
| Mythology: | Herakles Telephos | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Seven joining frgts., complete from shoulders to below knees. Missing: head, right upper arm and hand, left lower arm, lower legs; part of tree; upper half child, head of animal; front of plinth. Blackened surface, friable marble. Numerous old and recen | |
| Manufacture: | 01 M | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.308 W00.10 (shoulders) L00.220 (plinth) W00.15 (plinth) H00.035-0.07 (plinth) | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Roman, Context 2nd half 4th AC to Frankish, 19th c.; later 2nd or 3rd c. according to Stirling | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB915 B19 P31 | |
| NB915 B34 P50 | ||
| Bibliography: | Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 5; Sanders 2005, p. 424; Stirling 2005, p. 17; Stirling 2006, p. 95-97, fig 4.6:a | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stirling, Hesperia 77:1, 2008 Monument: Panaghia Villa Images (16) Basket: NB915 B19 P31 Basket: NB915 B34 P50 Notebook Page: NB 915, spread 20 (pp. 30 - 31) Notebook Page: NB 915, spread 30 (pp. 50 - 51) |
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