| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2734 | |
| Title: | PORTRAIT OF POLYDEUKION | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 2734 | |
| Description: | Portrait of youth with long, casually combed locks, swirling around cheeks, neck and ears, and hanging low on forehead; worked with flat chisel. Large round eyes with drooping inner corners, eyeballs outlined with shallow incision. Slight rasping on right side of neck. No trace of drill. Polydeukion, favorite of Herodes Atticus. | |
| Material: | White fine-crystalled marble. | |
| Condition: | Head, broken off irregularly at neck; features broken and battered; surface much weathered, worn, and incrusted. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.24 (head) W00.22 Depth00.215 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.28 | |
| Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | Early Antonine | |
| Area: | Kraneion | |
| Context: | Kraneion, Reported by Athanasia Anastasiou Christou. From re | |
| Bibliography: | AAA 1979 P148 fig. 25; DeGrazia, Diss. No. 29, P156 ff. | |
| Site: | Kraneion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Monument: Kraneion Image: bw 1966 018 07 Image: bw 2001 006 38 Image: bw 2001 006 39 Basket: Kraneion, Reported by Athanasia Anastasiou Christou. From re |
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