| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 686 | |
| Title: | STATUE OF HERMES KRIOPHOROS | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 686 | |
| Old Number: | S-XXXX-1793 S-XXXX-2051 lapsed | |
| Description: | Torso of under life-size, archaistic statue of Hermes Kriophoros ("ram-bearer"); stiff frontal posture; both arms bent at elbows and brought in to chest, grasping legs of ram near hooves; ram slung over Hermes's shoulders, with its head at his r., facing front; Hermes is nude, with cloak hanging in back from both shoulders in regular, stacked swallow-tail folds. Hair arranged in two rows of snail curls framing forehead, long corkscrew curl on either side of head, held by low, plain diadem; bearded. Ram:large horns curling around ears, woolly coat carved with flat chisel. Figure engaged in back to flat pillar to shoulder height. Surface smoothly finished where preserved; rasp marks visible; flat chisel marks on sides. Closely related to Kriophoros in Wilton House collection. | |
| Mythology: | Hermes Kriophoros | |
| Attributes: | Ram | |
| Material: | fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., head, torso; lacks both legs below groin, most of l. hand, most of face of both Hermes and ram, outer part r. shoulder. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.39 D00.19 W00.11 (Hermes' face) W00.14 (ram's face) W00.16 (Hermes' waist) W00.065 (Hermes' hand) W00.02 (Hermes' inner eyes) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.40 | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | 1st century AD | |
| Area: | St. John's West Shops | |
| Context: | NB27 P5 | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1904 P439ff PLXVIII; Reinach IV, 97, 2; Carpenter, Guide P71 N7; Corinth IX N021;AJA 1935 P068 fig10; Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P431.; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, American Journal of Archaeolog39:1... 1935 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: St. John's West Shops Images (5) Basket: NB27 P5 Notebook Page: NB 27, spread 6 (pp. 4 - 5) |
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