| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 821 | |
| Title: | HISTORICAL FRIEZE: HEAD OF ATHENA | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 821 | |
| Description: | Relief carved with head shown in three-quarters' left view. Wears Attic helmet with horsehair crest, visor decorated with spiral pattern; turned-upcheekpieces with stylized thunderbolts. Griffin onhelmet above visor. Hair forms a fringe acrossforehead with spiral-tipped locks, lock in front ofear, spiral lock behind. Broad face with heavy chin,fleshy small mouth. Minerva. Back roughly picked.Edges smoothly finished. Attributed to LechaionRd. arch | |
| Mythology: | Minerva | |
| Attributes: | Helmet | |
| Material: | Fine white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving rt. Corner of slab, preservingfront, back, right edge and top; face from chinup, proper lt. side of helmet. Missing corner. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.045, Th. background 0.025-00.035 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.43, W. 0.40 | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | Late 1st c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Northwest Shops | |
| Context: | NB39 P74 | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1911 P495-8; Corinth IX P134 N278; Leipen, Athena Parthenos (Toronto 1971) P9; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P438; Edwards, Hesperia 1994 P299 N25 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Edwards, Hesperia 63:3, 1994 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Publication: Robinson, American Journal of Archaeolog15:4... 1911 Monument: Northwest Shops Image: bw 1136 Image: bw 1137 Basket: NB39 P74 Notebook Page: NB 39, spread 41 (pp. 74 - 75) |
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