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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2585 | |
| Title: | ROMAN PORTRAIT OF WOMAN | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 2585 | |
| Description: | Head of girl, with hair arranged in flat, scalloped waves lying close to face, thick 4-strand braid surrounding head, criss-crossing in back and probably fastened there in knot. Head inclines slightly to lt. Broad forehead, smooth cheeks, round small chin; eyes large, wideset; drilled inner corners; inner sides of eyeballs incised; upper lid projects strongly over flat eyeball. Eyebrows lightly hatched. Mouth small, corners drilled, lips parted by drilled groove; small depression under lower lip. Flesh polished; claw chisel behind ears; top, back of hair roughly worked with flat. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Originally head and top of neck, single frgt.; missing nose; ears, mouth, face chipped; chip from top rt. side of head; surface worn, stained, and encrusted; Post-theft: neck broken into four pieces around modern hole for support. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.24 (head) W00.175 Depth00.215 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.28 | |
| Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | Hadrianic | |
| Area: | Kenchrea Basilica | |
| Context: | Kenchrea Basilica, Brought to Museum from New Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | ArchDelt 1918, parar. p. 2, fig. 2; DeGrazia, Diss. p. 137 ff., no. 23. | |
| Site: | Kenchreai | |
| City: | Loutra Tis Elenis | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Monument: Kenchrea Basilica Images (8) Basket: Kenchrea Basilica, Brought to Museum from New Corinth |
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