Perseus Art and Archaeology Browser

ID:

aa_2634

Type:

Sculpture

Date:

Roman copy

Period:

Roman

Context:

Probably from Athens

Findspot:

Found at Athens, Odos Praxitelous 29 (in 1934)

Region:

Attica

Condition:

Intact

Scale:

Life-size

Dimensions:

H. 1.86 m (including plinth); 1.80 (without plinth) m

Style:

High Classical

Material:

Marble

Type:

Free-standing statue

Category:

Original/copies

Material Description

Fine-grained white marble

Condition Description

Intact, except the head (separate, slotted in below neck), lower right arm, and left arm (both slotted in) and shoulder; chipped at the lower right of the base, and on edges of drapery; curved plinth (where slotted in to square base probably) worn at edges, and attached with thick plaster below to modern cement base; weathered with reddish-brown stains and grayish-brown adhesions, especially in folds of drapery; "949" written in black paint on right front of base, and in black ink on break above attachment for the left arm; marble cracked and spalling, with a solution crack from just below neck down left-center of chest; attachment hole on left arm socket (H. 0.04 m; W. 0.04 m; D. 0.047 m); attachment hole on right arm socket (H. 0.03 m; W. 0.03 m; D. 0.048 m); strut on himation, on left side, jutting out 0.015 m (H. 0.02 m; W. 0.02 m); rough-picked around dowel holes on sockets; yellowish-brown stain on most of back; hole cutting through both sides of drapery, above attachment of right forearm, toward inside (diam. 0.012 m; D. 0.026 m).

Collection:

Athens, National Archaeological Museum

Citations and Bibliography

Smith 1997, cat. S 2a; Despinis 1971, 28-29 no. 2, pls. 41-42.1-2; G. Despines, "Discovery of the Scattered fragments and Recognition of the Type of Agorakritos' Statue of Nemesis," AAA 3 (1970) 407-13; Karouzou 1968, 63; Karouzou 1967, 163, pl. 19; K. Schefold, "Archologische Funde vom Juli 1933 bis Juli 1934," AA 49 (1934) 143.