Sculpture Fragment

Unknown

530–520 B.C.

Marble

J. Paul Getty Museum

A fragment of a marble sculpture depicts drapery with carved folds and creases. The fragment is broken on all sides, revealing a rough, unfinished texture on the left and a more sculpted, textured surface on the right. This fragment (consisting of two joined pieces) belongs to a group of thirty nine other non joining pieces of a large relief monument that depicted a male figure wearing a long tunic, leaning on a wineskin and reclining on a kline (couch) padded with a thick cushion and pillow (see 81.AA.193; 81.AA.194.2-27; 82.AA.123.1-4; 85.AA.419.1-5; 86.AA.545.1-3) This particular fragment forms the lower leg of the man, with thin fabric highlighting the anatomy beneath. Well developed calf muscles of the leg are discernible, as is the front of the tibia. The folds of the garment are in low relief and arranged in a symmetrically spaced diagonal