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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | S 2063 | | Title: | | STATUE OF A NYMPH OR APHRODITE | | Category: | | Sculpture | | Category Code: | | S | | Object Number: | | 2063 | | Description: | | Under life-sized figure of standing, semi-nude female. Rt. leg weight-bearing but slightly bent at knee, left leg bent more emphatically with foot back. Torso leans forward with rt. shoulder lower and more forward than lt. Right arm at side; traces of left arm suggest that it lay close to the side and angled to front. Traces of neck indicate that head was probably turned to proper lt. A single wavy lock falls over each shoulder. Legs covered with drapery that leaves part of buttocks bare. It is gathered over pubic area and held by a scallop shell, now heavily damaged. The edges of the drapery on proper rt. side fall in bunched, deeply cut vertical folds over right leg to ankles; folds on left side are "blown" out to side, exposing lower left leg. Remaining folds radiate from shell and continue around to back. A hole D. 0.05 m. passes through shell and torso, for water. Drapery and flesh polished. | | Material: | | Medium-crystalled grayish marble. | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Complete from neck to ankles. Missing: right arm from below shoulder, lt. arm at shoulder; right breast underside of lt. breast damaged; upper part of rt. shoulder and drapery around buttocks damaged. 2015/03/23: small support added at base to stabilize. | | Area: | | St. John's | | Context: | | NB150 P145 | | Bibliography: | | Corinth 20, 2003; Soles, Aphrodite at Corinth, no. 4; Robinson 2013, Hesperia 82.2, fig. 16 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: St. John's
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Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 77 (pp. 145 - 146)
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