Statue

97-123-24

Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery

From: Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 97-123-24
Current Location Rome Gallery - On Display
Culture Roman
Provenience Italy
Period Imperial Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Marble (Stone)
Iconography Female Head | Cybele | Caryatid?
Description

Marble female head. Frontal, locks falling down sides of the neck. Top flat and only roughly worked. Back rough. Broken off at base of neck. Nose and chin abraded; otherwise rather worn. Edith Hall Dohan, on original catalogue card, suggested Cybele. Possibly part of a caryatid(?). Dull, grayish white marble. Green stain, as from bronze, on back surface. 11116 in ink on top surface.

Height 16.5 cm
Width 12 cm
Depth 12 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-123-24 - Old Museum Number | 11116 - ANSP Number

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