APC Image: AK 0949: Fragment of draped torso. The waist of a female figure clad in a thin transparent chiton, girt just beneath by a small round cord, and a himation which descends behind from the direction of the left shoulder and is gathered in front below the waist in heavy parallel folds. Carpenter ascribes it to the figure of Lachesis from the east pediment of the Parthenon. Object Description: | | Fragment of draped torso. The waist of a female figure clad in a thin transparent chiton, girt just beneath by a small round cord, and a himation which descends behind from the direction of the left shoulder and is gathered in front below the waist in heavy parallel folds. Carpenter ascribes it to the figure of Lachesis from the east pediment of the Parthenon. | Negative Number: | | AK 0949 | Museum: | | Acropolis Museum | Museum Inventory Number: | | 930 | Category: | | Sculpture | Subcategory: | | Torso | Monument: | | Parthenon | Site: | | Acropolis | City: | | Athens | Region: | | Attica | Country: | | Greece | Format: | | Glass-plate | Dimensions: | | 18 X 24 | Bibliography: | | Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 55, fig. 15. | Repository: | | ASCSA ARCHIVES | Collection Title: | | Archaeological Photographic Collection | Series: | | AK | Image Width: | | 2129 | Image Height: | | 2829 |
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