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    Shoulder of colossal draped figure. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Shoulder of Colossal Draped Figure

Date
5th C. BC?, Late Lydian (Persian)?
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
S63.031
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Sculpture
Sculpture Type
Human Figure
Site
Sardis
Sector
Syn
Trench
Syn 63
Locus
Syn MH Spolia
B-Grid Coordinates
E45.30 / N17 *97.00
Findspot
Syn
Description

Possibly the right side of a colossal statue or relief. The fragment has a fold falling across the shoulder, another going across the back, and long shallow vertical folds falling down the back. It is at least one and a half times life size.

Because of careful, “un-Roman” chisel workmanship, this could be an early, e.g. 5th C. B.C. piece. Possibly a figure in Oriental dress and perhaps going to the right with an offering, it may be from a relief rather than a statue.

Condition

Grayish-white marble with large crystals. According to D. Monna (Aug. 1972, sample XXXVI), the marble is local and resembles a sample taken from quarry 2 (see Ch. 1, “Materials”). Whitmore: compares with Sardis MD quarry group A.

Broken on all sides.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.475; P.W. 0.455; P. Th. 0.09.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
General style and garment recall the Satrap Sarcophagus, Kleemann, Satrapen-Sarkophag,14-24, pls. 4-6, 10 (cloak), 12.
Author
GMAH