| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 181 | |
| Title: | COLOSSAL FEMALE HEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 181 | |
| Description: | Colossal female head, with wavy hair, parted in center and pulled back to ears, then up. Hair below crown cut in shallow incisions as though for a separate attachment. On lt. side hairline indicated almost as a cap. Flesh smoothed with rasp. Eyebrows sharp ridges. Eyelids sharp-edged with upper overlapping lower at outer corners. Dimple in chin. Drill visible in hair and at corners of mouth. Back of head cut away, leaving vertical surface from crown to level of top of ears, roughly dressed. At this point a shelf 0.025 m. wide, top of which more carefully dressed than vertical surface above. Behind and below shelf, little remains of vertical surface. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., face and hair to crown of head and behind ears; broken at neck, back of head. Nose restored. Part of lt. and rt. Upper eyelids missing, right part of upper lip. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.224 (face) L00.125 (outer corners eyes) L00.047 (mouth) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.382 W00.342 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 2nd or very early 3rd c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Old_Propylaia ? | |
| Context: | NB8 P43 | |
| Bibliography: | Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 221; Scranton 1941, Corinth 1.2, cat. 26 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Old_Propylaia ? Images (7) Basket: NB8 P43 Notebook Page: NB 8, spread 26 (p. 43) Notebook Page: NB 8, spread 29 (p. 49) |
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