KS003 (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. Three thick, flowing folds separated by two grooves that converge toward top, probably from a chiton. Sculpting of fine, bright marble is of very high quality, sharp and fluid
Preservation description
One small fragment preserves one sculpted face. Heavy, extensive abrasion and slight, sparse chipping on all surfaces; slight, extensive encrustation.
Published as
Linardatos2022, pp. 1230-1231, 1235, no. 952, fig. 27.5
Preserved height
0.063
Preserved thickness
0.03
Preserved width
0.042
Chronology comment
Roman
Explanation of deposition
In mass of Roman sherds and other debris against upper/west face of Wall A1, where they accumulated with downslope movement and/or with disposal by users of adjacent passageway.
Material
Marble (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRA0804-007
Location in unit
Along upper/west face of Wall A1.
Drawing
Photograph