| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1098 | |
| Title: | STATUE OF COLOSSAL MALE FIGURE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1098 | |
| Description: | Torso of colossal standing male figure; weight on r. leg, l. leg bent and knee slightly forward; r. hip pushed out to side; position of head uncertain; chest bare with long mantle draped over l. shoulder and arm, crossing around back, around r. hip, to cover outstretched l. forearm; anatomy of chest and abdomen carefully modelled; r. hip muscle exaggerated; drapery folds long and deeply carved; l. edge of drapery rough and unfinished (perhaps originally hidden from view by attribute held in l. hand?); surface smoothly finished; some rasp marks visible on drapery and on skin of torso near edge of cloak; back roughly worked using flat chisel; figure of a god or divinized emperor. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Torso from lt. shoulder to ca. knees; lacks head, r. arm, r. shoulder, l. forearm, legs below knees; drapery chipped. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.74 (torso from shoulders to groin) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H01.52 | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | 1st century A.D. | |
| Area: | Julian Basilica | |
| Context: | NB75 P247 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IX P77-78 N138; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P433 N44DeGrazia N107; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Julian Basilica Images (13) Basket: NB75 P247 Notebook Page: NB 75, spread 29 (pp. 246 - 247) |
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