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Solid marble chest in house form, overview. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Chest
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 228
- Date
- Date uncertain, Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4084
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4084
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S59.074
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Furnishing
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *1.90
- Findspot
- PC, in or above Tomb of the Lintel.
- Description
- A chest of solid stone has at its top a slightly raised platform, in which a round hollow has been cut, and also a channel to the back of the stone. This may have been for the insertion of a statue in the top. The front of the chest has in the center a lock plate with imitations of four nails at the corners and a smaller and larger horizontal cutting for keys. The plate and nails are in shallow relief. At the sides and bottom, chiseled lines make a border. There is a projecting profile at top and bottom. The back of the chest is only roughly chiseled. There are no feet.
- Condition
Marble.
Some chipping of projecting profiles.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.33; W. 0.48; D. 0.335.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- For another footless chest, see Richter, Furniture of the Greeks, fig. 582.
- Author
- NHR