Sculpture
Object Number:
MS4034
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Roman
Provenience:
Italy
Latium
Lake Nemi
Period:
Late Republican Roman Period
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Marble (Stone)
Technique:
Carved
Description:
White marble. Head and most of both arms are missing. Arms were attached seperately. Broken off below beneath the breasts. Right arm extended straight out to the right. Left arm at side. She wears a garment forming a V-neck which seems to be covered in part by a mantle which is drawn across the back and over the shoulder from righ to left. In front it covers the left breast. It is then girt in a thick roll around the eaist below the breasts.
Height:
17cm
Bibliography:
[Catalogue] 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. : Page/Fig./Plate: 93:48
[Book] Moltesen, Mette. 1997. Dianas Hellige Lund: Fund fra en Helligdom i Nemi: In the Sacred Grove of Diana: Finds from a sanctuary at Nemi. 5-235.
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