KS002a (Roman Marble Draped Figural Sculpture) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Creamy to golden white, fine, semitranslucent, calcite marble with visible crystalline structure. Pentelic.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Statue or Statuette
Description
Chip from surface of small statue of draped figure. Two thick, flowing folds separated by deep groove, probably from lower part of chiton. Sculpting of fine, bright marble is of very high quality, sharp and fluid.
Preservation description
One small, irregular fragment preserves one sculpted face. Slight, sparse chipping and abrasion on all surfaces; light, sparse lime encrustation.
Published as
Linardatos2022, pp. 1230-1231, 1234, 1235, no. 950, fig. 27.5
Preserved height
0.062
Preserved thickness
0.107
Preserved width
0.041
Associated with Building
Koutsongila Building A1
Chronology comment
Roman
Explanation of deposition
Decoration in first phase of Building A1?
Material
Marble (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRA0808-008
Location in unit
Colluvium over bedrock in southeast area of Building A1, near KS002b.
Drawing
Photograph