Statue
MS3454
From: Italy | Latium | Lake Nemi
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS3454 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Roman |
Provenience | Italy | Latium | Lake Nemi |
Period | Late Republican Roman Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Limestone |
Technique | Carved |
Iconography | Draped Woman |
Description | Draped female, lower half. White limestone. Preserved from upper thighs downward, lacking feet. At right a small pilaster against which figure is leaning with proper left leg forward. Two layers of drapery, the upper crossing diagonally so that lower line crosses proper left knee. Heavy vertical folds along proper left side to ground and in front of pilaster. In center of top is a vertical rectangular cutting with traces of iron for attachment of upper half of figure. A section of back betweer pilaster and rapery of proper right sie is only roughly finished. |
Height | 36 cm |
Width | 24 cm |
Depth | 20 cm |
Credit Line | Museum Purchase; subscription of Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1897 |
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