| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1998 2 | |
| Title: | MARBLE STATUETTE: APHRODITE WITH DOLPHIN | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Small statuette of Aphrodite standing with legs perhaps apart but on same plane. Draped in so far as preserved with himation that clings to sides and backs of legs, with one projecting folds (broken) hanging down rt. lower leg, second narrower fold between legs, with incised diagonal folds on lt. leg, extending from knee down to proper lt., shallow oblique folds on back. Dolphin with long beak placed vertically to proper lt. "standing" on beak, 2 incised circles for eyes. Traces of high plinth. Deep drill channels framing folds, drill used to remove stone between lt. leg and dolphin. | |
| Mythology: | Aphrodite | |
| Attributes: | Dolphin | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with micaceous veins running vertically. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving legs of figure; drapery and front of right lower leg broken away, both feet, part of central fold broken; head and beak of dolphin preserved; proper lt. edge of plinth preserved, broken all other faces and below. Back partly stai | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.115 H00.070 (figure) | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Chronology: | Roman | |
| Area: | North Market | |
| Context: | North Market, Found while cleaning mosaic in colonnade | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: North Market Image: bw 1998 028 35 Basket: North Market, Found while cleaning mosaic in colonnade |
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