| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1999 9 | |
| Title: | MARBLE SMALL-SCALE STATUETTE OF ARTEMIS: PLINTH, BASE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 9 | |
| Related Objects: | S-1999-17A, S-1999-17D, S-1999-18 | |
| Description: | Statuette of Artemis with legs widely separated, rt. turned out 45 degrees, lt. only slightly out; feet shod in boots. To proper lt. of figure is a crouching boar, forepaws over lt. boot; head tilted upwards with almond-shaped incised eye, ears laid back, ruff around head and neck, bristle down back; 3 rows of locks run down length of lt. side. Rasp marks on rt. Side. Behind rt. Foot is a support/tree trunk; against its rt. Edge is tail of something. Plinth in plan straight across front, curved from sides to back. Surface of plinth roughly picked, as are sides; plinth not of consistent thickness but bottom tapers from 0.032 in front to 0.011 in back. Plinth set into a deep cutting in a rusticated base, all sides of which roughly worked to suggest rocky setting; sides and bottom of cutting worked with point; bottom of base flat, worked with point. Adaptation of the Artemis Rospigliosi type. Belongs with: S-1999-17A, S-1999-17D, S-1999-18. | |
| Decoration: | Red paint on boar, base of support, top of plinth, on parts of base. | |
| Mythology: | Artemis | |
| Attributes: | Boar | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble, now blackened. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving right foot, front of lt. foot, most of boar except head, forelegs, base of support; all of plinth and base. Paint partially preserved. Found under S-1999-8. July 2015: Boar broken off, not reattached (S-1999-9B). | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.056 (base) L00.18 (base) W00.134 (base) H00.032 (plinth) L00.142 (plinth) W00.08 (plinth) L00.036 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.149 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Roman; 2nd or 3rd c. according to Stirling | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB918 B95 P123 | |
| Bibliography: | Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 4a; Sanders 2005, p. 424 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stirling, Hesperia 77:1, 2008 Monument: Panaghia Villa Images (23) Basket: NB918 B95 P123 Notebook Page: NB 918, spread 66 (p. 123) |
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