KS001 (Early-Middle Roman Limestone Funerary Sculpture) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Brownish gray, somewhat soft, granular, sandy limestone. Local source.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Funerary Sculpture
Description
Miniature bust with face and upper chest sculpted in frontal orientation. Pointed head with oval face has very schematic features in low relief: slightly sunken forehead; deeply set eyes behind heavy brows; angular nose with two small nostrils; slightly rounded cheeks; wide, rectangular mouth with parted lips; broad, rounded chin. Narrow indentation represents neck, below which is wide, spreading base representing upper chest. Two small, rounded protrusions on chest beneath jaws seem to represent breasts or nipples.
Preservation description
Intact but part of nose and right eye broken. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and chipping.
Published as
Linardatos2022, pp. 1231, 1233-1234, no. 949, fig. 27.4
Height
0.102
Thickness
0.073
Width
0.102
Associated with Burial Context
Koutsongila Tomb 2
Chronology comment
Context: mid-/late 1st-late 3rd/early 4th century
Explanation of deposition
Represents funerary activity. Recent graverobbers probably threw it out of dromos, stomion, or chamber of tomb 2 along with loose sediment.
Material
Limestone (Material)
Location in unit
Found top down on modern surface at 1.69 m bearing 288 degrees from northwest upper corner of dromos of tomb 2.
Drawing
Photograph