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Description
- 98
- Arm fragment
- 2nd-3rd c. AD
- White crystalline marble.
- Ht. 4 cm, w. 9 cm, th. 7.3 cm.
- A thin section across the diameter of an upper arm, the piece is broken above and below, the breaks meeting in one edge such that the piece is triangular in vertical and horizontal section. Worn, surface polish missing on finished surfaces, with a crack across one corner.
- This seems to be a portion of a smooth fleshy upper arm, cylindrical in section; the other possibility, less likely, is a portion of a round supporting element, such as a tree, of a figural statue.
- If an arm fragment, its idealised unmuscled rotundity may indicate a life-sized female subject, whether nude or simply bare-armed,.If that is the case, then we have a portion of a mythological or divine female body. The same SU yielded, suggestively, a portion of well-cut female drapery at the same scale, life-sized at least. It is tempting to associate the two fragments, which seem to be in East Mediterranean marble, with one statue.
Record Details
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VM_4020
- Strato di terra e pietre posto nella parte W del saggio (piano superiore).