Detail of the unfinished Artemis from the Sculptor's Workshop.
Work on this statue clearly progressed from the front to the back with the whole form realised essentially in two-dimensions before it was fully shaped into three dimensions. This way of working whereby each detail is defined as the carver works into the stone rather than in phases of shaping, with the carver working systematically all around the figure, is typical of Roman relief sculpture. Several part-finished Metropolitan sarcophagi are worked in just this way.
