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  • 97
  • Drapery, fragment
  • 2nd-3rd c. AD
  • White crystalline marble: Eastern Mediterranean?
  • Ht. max. 15 cm, w. 13.5 cm, th. 10 cm.
  • Extremely broken on 5 surfaces. Finished drapery apparent only on the 6th surface. Surface polish lost, much wear after breakage. Lichen stains and one rust stain. Large breaks across the drapery itself: sharp diagonal across top of folds, across back, on left side.
  • This is a fragment of heavy fluted drapery, at life-scale, of the trailing lower skirts of a standing female figure. Preserved are portions of two projecting folds, a channel of cloth at left, and the beginning of a channel of cloth at right. The folds flare to the left and right from top to bottom. The left hand fold is clearly the outermost of a sequence of stepped-back flutes. The surface was once well-polished, and is still smooth where intact. The workmanship is of very high illusionistic quality; of fine quality also is the marble.
  • Although the subject cannot be determined, it is suggestive that the same SU yielded a portion of a nude section of a probably female arm, also life-sized. Perhaps the two fragments belonged to the same statue. The quality of carving and its plastic character without purely linear detail suggests the Antonine or early Severan period, 2nd- to early 3rd-c. AD.
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Record Details

  • VM_4020
    • Strato di terra e pietre posto nella parte W del saggio (piano superiore).
    • Ann Kuttner