The statue is well preserved. Part of the neck of the inset head neck is still
in situ
inside the insertion cavity. A section of the drapery below the left hand is broken. Minor breaks and chipping are evident sporadically on the surface of the marble, especially on the edges of the folds of the garments. A small part of a puntello is visible on the surface of the left thigh. The flesh surfaces are polished. The drill is used extensively in the rendering of the drapery, esp. of the chiton. It depicts a standing (on a circular base) frontal female figure, wearing a long chiton, a wide himation wrapped tightly around the body and sandals (their straps were rendered in paint). The left foot is covered completely by the chiton. The rear is more coarsely-finished with the flat chisel. The so-called “Small Herculaneum Woman” statuary type is faithfully replicated. Good quality of workmanship.
H. Kruse, Römische weibliche Gewandstatuen des zweiten jahrhunderts n.Chr., Göttingen 1975, 295, no. 40; C. Roebuck, Corinth XIV. The Asklepieion and Lerna, Princeton 1951, 144-145, cat. no. 11, pl. 58; C. De Grazia Vanderpool, Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Corinth. The Roman Portraiture (PhD thesis Columbia University), New York 1973, 296-297, cat. no. 96, pl. 99 (Antonine period); A. Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses: eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna, Mainz am Rhein 2004, 245, no. 48; https://corinth.ascsa.net/id/corinth/object/s%201455?q=S%201455&t=&v=icons&sort=&s=1
