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Stele with standing draped woman, overview. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Stele with Standing Draped Woman
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 151
- Date
- Probably 3rd C. AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx74.003
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Funerary Relief, Draped Woman
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Found in the garden of Himmet Aydın between the Pactolus and Sart Mustafa.
- Description
- The relief is probably from a funerary stele. There is no indication whether there were more figures. The woman is standing, head turned to her r. with slightly bent r. arm across chest. Based on a Hellenistic type with short upper, long lower body, she wears a chiton (Three primitive vertical folds are visible below cloak) and a cloak draped around the body and l. arm. A fold of her cloak falls from her l. wrist and her r. leg comes forward under the edge of the cloak. The background comes forward in lower part. Crude linear work done in large, flat chisel strokes, left unfinished on neck, then abraded for polish.
- Condition
Very large-grained local marble.
Broken on all sides. Of the head, only r. cheek preserved. Traces of cement on front and back from reuse.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.25; W. 0.15; Th. 0.03
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR