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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | S 774 | | Title: | | STATUE OF APOLLO THE LYRE-PLAYER | | Category: | | Sculpture | | Category Code: | | S | | Object Number: | | 774 | | Description: | | Standing male figure, right leg weight-bearing, left leg relaxed, slightly forward and to left to rest in front of pillar supporting cithara at proper left. Right arm raised, perhaps resting on head, left arm down, probably resting on cithara. Head turned to left. Full hair pulled back in narrow strands, bound by fillet; roughly finished mass of long hair brought over fillet and hanging down to top of shoulders. A single cork-screw lock emerges from below each side of back of fillet and falls down to the chest. Himation gathered over left shoulder, falls to ankles in back. Figure's left side exposed. Right side of himation passes under right arm, across thighs, leaving genitals exposed. Hem cuts across right ankle, and left leg leacing left lower leg bare. Folds long and broad. Strap for cithata worn diagonally from right shoulder. Cithara rested on a pillar to proper left, rectangular in shape and tapering toward bottom, with fascia at bottom, cavetto and fascia at top. Snake curls around pillar three times, its head extending over concave moulding at top. Cithara set back slightly from, and in line with, the front edge of the pillar; P.H. 0.20, W. base 0.31; its lower edge defined by an incised line 0.016 m. from bottom. Front of figure's body and drapery polished with only slight evidence of rasping. Back of figure roughly worked with flat chisel. | | Mythology: | | Apollo | | Material: | | Fine-crystalled white marble with grayish streaks. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Numerous joining fragments. | | Area: | | St. John's | | Context: | | NB37 P85 | | Bibliography: | | Johnson, 1931, Corinth IX P26 N16; Hesperia 1938, p551-556; Hesperia 1981, P444 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: St. John's
Image: bw 2075
Notebook Page: NB 37, spread 46 (pp. 84 - 85)
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