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Description
- 96
- Drapery fragment
- 3rd c. AD?
- Densely grained white marble (Italian) with no streaking polished to a 'soapy’ surface.
- Across broken drapery flute, front, w. max 5.9 cm;. across back of drapery flute, w. 6.7 cm. Th. of undercut cloth, 1.5 cm at back (next to large break) ranging to .8-1 cm th. at the front. Across break, 5.1 and 3 cm above and below, 5 cm on long axis.
- Broken across the top and at the back. Finished edges of the drapery flute preserved. Surface polish well preserved and clean.
- The open, undercut mouth of the end of a flute of drapery, a so-called omega fold. Finished edges are preserved across most of the front, which is shallowly depressed to form a cloth flute undulating in horizontal section. The interior of the flute is cut back and polished on its inner surfaces. While the associated draperies are incised in the a penna style to resemble fine crinkling cloth, at the hem the fabric is treated here, as on the Amazon S 6, as if it were a thick, almost doughy cloth.
- The garment that our fragment comes from was agitated by motion, complementing the skirt-hem flutes of the Amazon group S 6. It matches exactly in form, dimensions and cutting style, and was found in the same context. But because the circle of the hem of the Amazon’s chiton is intact, this flute cannot be from the same statue, unless it comes from a mantle held by the Amazon’s extended left arm. It may otherwise come from a pendant group, also centered on an agitated female - perhaps, even a second Amazon and hero pair