| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1976 2 | |
| Title: | ROMAN FEMALE PORTRAIT, OCTAVIA MINOR? | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1976 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Marble female head, classicizing style, with oval face, very full lips; upper lip gives impression of protruding over corner of mouth, corners of mouth pinched, producing effect of full, "rosebud" lips. Small prominent chin. Nose thick at bridge, slightly arched. Eyes flare from tear duct, widest part of eye past mid point of eye. Top lid the descends precipitously and overlaps emphatically. No carved or incised pupil. Smooth forehead with oval hair line, sharp brow line, eyebrows not incised. Hair stylized, executed with flat chisel. Hair pulled back from forehead to band of flat diadem in slight wave. One long twisted tress from back of head is pulled forward across top of head and over diadem to hair line of forehead, then doubles back under proper right side of tress. Running drill work is in nostril, under proper right ear lobe, along top of upper eyelid. Rest of surface of face smooth except rasp marks in front and below proper right ear, above eyelid. Parallel: Octavia from Crete, Nat. Mus., Roemishe Mitteil 54, 1939, p. 22. | |
| Material: | White Pentelic marble with micaceous veins. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving face, broken from neck, in front of ears, preserving band of hair, part of diadem over forehead. | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB603 P166 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 20, 2003; Hesperia 1981, Vol. 50, p. 434 (with wrong number) | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest Basket: NB603 P166 |
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