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Fragment of right leg of Dionysus and adjacent tree trunk support. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Fragment of right leg of Dionysus and adjacent tree trunk support, in situ. (Photograph by Larry J. Majewski.) -
Fragment of right leg of Dionysus and adjacent tree trunk support, in situ. (Photograph by Larry J. Majewski.)
Fragment of Right Leg of Dionysus and Adjacent Tree Trunk Support
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 123
- Date
- 3rd C. AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S70.004
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 70
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E78.80 / N16 *96.50
- Findspot
- Syn E.
- Description
The leg, large and well-modeled, is worked in one piece with a hefty tree trunk. The front of the tree trunk is covered with winding grape vine, the back is smoothed by a flat chisel plus abrasive. The leg, too, though smoother, shows similar rough abrasion.
The style is still plastic organic but the technique is getting rougher. The treatment of the vine ornament is already flattened. All work has been done with a flat chisel, implying the late antique. Probably 3rd C., A.D. 200-250.
- Condition
White marble, heavily incrusted. Whitmore: compares with Sardis MD quarry group A.
Back part of leg preserved from thigh to shin. Front part split off.
- Dimensions
- D. of tree trunk 0.20; W. 0.15; H. of leg 0.41.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- For more complete examples, see Paribeni, Cirene, 116, no. 326, pl. 153, and also his no. 322.
- Author
- NHR