The Colossus of Porto Raphti in Attica

A woman (PI. 24), headless and armless, wears a girt chiton, or chiton in the form of a peplos, and sits on a rectangular throne of rocks, terminating in a slightly uneven plinth. Her right arm was raised and extended, and her left arm rested on her left thigh, or just above it. Her left leg was drawn back, raising her left knee; her right leg was relaxed, as the lower limb and foot were extended. These are both missing from just below the knees. Traces of the right foot are visible on the plinth. The cloak or himation falls down the back in tight zigzag folds. It is also arranged over the raised right arm, around the shoulders from right to left (pinned with a brooch on the right shoulder?), down the left side and over the left leg to the plinth. The head and upper part of the neck were worked separately and inset. The statue may possibly have been knocked off its base at some time and damaged on the bottom. The bottom is uneven, as the view from the back bears out. The base has been reinforced with stonework and is now held by a pair of iron bands bolted at front and back (PI. 25, a, b, e). The marble of statue and base is Pentelic, that of the latter being much coarser than the block of the sculpture. The remains of holes for clamps, two of which are visible in the front view, indicate that some of the smaller blocks of the base were set in new positions when the modern repairs took place.