| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2001 2 | |
| Title: | RIGHT LEG OF AN UNDER LIFE-SIZE FIGURE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 2001 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Bare right leg of small scale standing figure, preserved from mid thigh to mid calf with support; softly modelled knee with muscular thigh and calf but not distinctly defined muscles. Back of leg is not as well finished as the front. To proper rt. of leg is a support, consisting of a triangular wedge of stone projecting roughly 00.045 m. from the leg from the height of the mid thigh and down, and covering half of the back of the leg. It is roughly smoothed in front with a flat chisel and roughly rounded in back with a point in oblique strokes; its top edge slopes down from upper proper left to right. The front of the leg is articulated from the support by a flat chisel; in back it is not sharply defined. Rasp marks on its surface. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Right leg from above knee to mid calf, and support; knee cap missing, and chip in outside of thigh and lower leg. | |
| Manufacture: | F01 U Standing | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.050 (knee) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.0132 W00.100 (max) | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman 1st c. BC-mid 2nd AC | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB935 B46 P102 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2001 021 34 Basket: NB935 B46 P102 Notebook Page: NB 935, spread 56 (pp. 102 - 103) |
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