| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 314 | |
| Title: | CORINTHIAN MAGISTRATE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 314 | |
| Description: | Marble male portrait body of draped left side of frontally-posed, standing figure wearing chlamys and tunic; extremely narrow profile and back, almost completely flat; left arm slightly bent forward; two small drill (?) holes on side of forearm; drapery over front of body forms repetitive pattern of catenary folds; left arm gathers up fabric, forming close tubular folds along arm; few widely-spaced catenaries on back. Running drill used for deeper folds and some shallowly drilled channels; flat chisel for some shallow folds across front and for rough finish on back. Probably Late Antique imperial official. | |
| Material: | White marble with micaceous veining. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Left half of figure preserved from neck to knee; right half of figure missing; left hand broken; surface very badly weathered and stained. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H01.100 W00.275 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Mid-Fifth Century A.D. | |
| Area: | Lechaion Road | |
| Context: | NB10 P26 | |
| Bibliography: | Johnson 1931, Corinth 9, cat. 323; DeGrazia, cat. 88, p. 283; Brown 2017, Corinth in Late Antiquity, fig. 28; Brown 2012, Hesperia 81.1, figs. 10, 11 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Monument: Lechaion Road Images (16) Basket: NB10 P26 Notebook Page: NB 10, spread 18 (p. 27) |
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