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- 1082
- Arm and drapery, female statue, fragment
- 2nd-3rd c. AD
- Crystalline white marble.
- Ca 18 x 10.5 cm; th. max. ca 6.5 cm. Dimensions of ovoid oblique section through ? upper arm, ca 9 x 7 cm.
- Broken on all sides; the back is a break-surface. Folds broken on either side, and drapery mass broken away below; there is a small extant portion of rounded arm. This is mostly planed away by ancient and modern breakage, leaving an ovoid oblique section and a small triangular portion of rounded outer surface. Polish lightly weathered away, with breaks and scarring on the surface, spots of black fungus and lichen, rootmarks and light grey-brown encrustation. Two very large flakes were chipped from the drapery in excavation.
- This is a fragment of three long, thin, undulating folds of agitated drapery that curve past and around some complexly rounded body part, for example an extended arm. The high rounded edges of the nested folds are broken away to expose the deep drill channels undercutting them.
- The fragment seems to depict trailing drapery, agitated by motion, caught upon some portion of an extended arm of a female figure. Such motion suggests a narrative, therefore the possibly under life-sized figure was probably not a portrait but rather a mythological or emblematic figure.
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VM_4330
- strato humotico coprendo quasi interamente l'area del saggio BII
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