Sculpture

Statue

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Object Number:	MS3483
Current Location:	Rome Gallery Currently On Display
Culture:	Roman
Provenience:	Italy Latium Lake Nemi
Period:	Roman Period
Date Made:	125 BCE
Early Date:	-125
Late Date:	-1
Section:	Mediterranean
Materials:	Marble (Stone)
Technique:	Carved
Iconography:	Female Head Diana
Height:	44.7 cm
Width:	28.5 cm
Depth:	21 cm
Credit Line:	Museum Purchase; subscription of Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1897

Description

Over life size female head. White marble. About twice life size. Frontal pose. Hair parted in the middle, brushed back exposing part of ears. Broken diagonally from lower neck. Intended for insertion: roughened surface preserved below at left: acrolithic (?). Head cut off flat behind; back of head in a seperate piece? Well preserved, even nose.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Classical World - Roman World (15 Mar 2003)

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Bibliography:

[Catalogue, Collection] 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.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 85, no. 44	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M., and Romano, Irene B., and Brownlee, Ann B., and White, Donald J. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 54, no. 80	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Bilde, Pia G. 1998. "Those Nemi Sculptures...: Marbles from a Roman Sanctuary in the University of Pennsylvania Museum". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 40. no. 3. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 42, fig. 5	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[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.. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. pg. 5-235 Actual Citation	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Guldager Bilde, Pia. 1995. "The Sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis: the Late Republican Acrolithic Cult Statues".. Acta Archaeologica. Vol. 66. pg. 191-217 Actual Citation	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 189, no. 24	View Objects related to this Actual Citation