| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 197 | |
| Title: | COLOSSAL FEMALE HEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 197 | |
| Description: | Colossal vemale head, wavy hair parted in center and pulled back to ears, then up. Drill work visible in hair. Hairline on right side like a cap. Flesh smoothed with rasp. Eyebrows and upper lids sharp ridges; upper lids overlap ower at outer corners. Lips full, slightly parted, teeth less prominent than those of male captives. Heavy squarish lower jaw, dimple in chin. Drill in corners of mouth. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment, face and hair to crown of head and behind ears; broken at neck, back of head. Small chips in upper rt. eyelid, lips, nose restored. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.245 (face) L00.126 (outer corners eyes) L00.056 (mouth) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.370 W00.341 | |
| 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 P72 | |
| Bibliography: | Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 222; Scranton 1941, Corinth 1.2, cat. 27; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Old_Propylaia ? Images (5) Basket: NB8 P72 Notebook Page: NB 8, spread 41 (p. 73) |
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