| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 322 | |
| Title: | MARBLE HERO RELIEF | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 322 | |
| Related Objects: | Joins with S-2344 from Agora SC | |
| Description: | Relief, carved on one face. Border W 0.035 m at bottom; architectural frame with pilaster at left with narrow flaring capital. Architrave and ovolo across top and pitched roof with two covertiles preserved. scene: reclining hero, of which draped legs are preserved, extending to left. Couch hung with sheet, which hangs in a drapery. In front of couch is a long table with long legs which widen at top and bottom, laden with row of conical cakes alternating with round fruit - pomegranates? Below the table is a coiled snake, its head raised. At the right a nude young boy, missing its head and shoulders is shown 3/4 back left, his right leg drawn back, left arm extended, offering a shallow bowl to Hero. Beneath the hand is a tall volute krater. To left of hero is a draped woman seated on a couch. She wears a peplos (?) and himation which leaves her right arm bare, her right hand rests above the table. Feet rest on a footstool with "crouching" feet, her right foot is advanced. To the left of the table is a rectangular altar (?), 3/4 view; behind the altar and woman is a procession of: L to R, 2 veiled (? Missing heads) women and a semi-draped man, his hand on a woman's back; in front of these two fully draped children; a third semi-draped boy leading a fat boar. | |
| Attributes: | A clamp cutting in lower edge ca. 0.10m to right of left edge, W 0.045m | |
| Material: | very fine white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining fragments preserving lower half and left half of upper part; missing right quarter, chips in left edge. | |
| Manufacture: | Edges worked with claw chisel, back roughly picked. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H 0.041m, W 0.490m, Th side 0.05m | |
| Area: | Acrocorinth | |
| Context: | Acrocorinth | |
| NB11 P19 | ||
| Findspot Description: | forum north central. found under pavement opposite "Boudroumi" (NW shops, vaulted shop) May 14, 1901 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 42 p.130; Corinth IX p. 126 no. 263 | |
| Site: | Acrocorinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Acrocorinth Images (5) Basket: Acrocorinth Notebook Page: NB 11, spread 13 (p. 19) Notebook Page: NB 15, spread 32 |
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