Statue
Object Number:
MS3457
Current Location:
Rome Gallery
Culture:
Roman
Provenience:
Italy
Latium
Lake Nemi
Period:
Roman Period
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Marble (Stone)
Technique:
Carved
Iconography:
Youth
Satyr
Description:
White marble. Naked. Missing, attached seperately: lower left leg and foot; body above middle; forward part of right foot. Weight on right leg. Thigh of left leg close to that of right leg but left lower leg is drawn back behind right leg. Left leg rests against a tree trunk covered with drapery. A plinth, rounded in outline is preserved also.
Height:
76cm
Width:
15cm
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Roman World (15 Mar 2003)
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: p. 113, no. 60
[Journal] Bilde, Pia G. "Those Nemi Sculptures...": Marbles from a Roman Sanctuary in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Vol.: 40(3). : Page/Fig./Plate: 46
[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. : Page/Fig./Plate: 111
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.
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