Statuette
| Object Number: | MS4025 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Italy Rome (uncertain) |
| Period: | Late Hellenistic Period Early Imperial Roman Period |
| Early Date: | -146 |
| Late Date: | -30 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Marble (Stone) |
| Technique: | Carved |
| Iconography: | Woman Aphrodite |
| Height: | 40.6 cm |
| Width: | 15 cm |
| Depth: | 10.8 cm |
| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase; subscription Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1901 |
Description
Female statuette: Aphrodite.Standing draped female in a frontal position in controposto pose with her weight on her right leg and the left leg bent at the knee and pulled back. This voluptuous female with her left arm raised adjusting or holding her himation and wearing a chiton, bound by a cord, which slips off her right shoulder is an active young goddess like Aphrodite or Artemis (Romano, 2006).
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| The Classical World: Rome ( Apr 1958 - 1975) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Roman Sculpture Gallery (1975 - 2000) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Special Exhibition: Classical and Oriental (12 Dec 1913 - 01 Nov 1915) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Collection] Romano, Irene B. 2006. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 48-50, no. 30 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 174, no. 31 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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