Harvard Art Museums > 1940.130: Head of a Goddess Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of a Goddess , 1940.130,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/291335. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1940.130 Title Head of a Goddess Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture, head Date 50 BCE-100 CE Period Hellenistic period, Late, to Early Roman Imperial Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/291335 Physical Descriptions Medium Marble from western Asia Minor Dimensions 6 x 10 cm (2 3/8 x 3 15/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Excavated from Antioch, House of Aion, Sector 15-M (no. C602-S677) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity Accession Year 1940 Object Number 1940.130 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 199075 Head of a Goddess The fragment is broken off on a slight diagonal across the middle of the neck. There appear to be the remains of two hands, much damaged, on either side of her head. The marble is from western Asia Minor. The breaks suggest the head came from a rough statuette or relief, perhaps not fully finished, of Aphrodite holding her tresses. Face and eyes are carved and outlined in a sketchy fashion. The hair and the large crown (or extra mass of hair) are carved with equally sketchy parallel lines, designed to suggest strands of hair or the enrichment of the large diadem. The head has a Syrian cast, placing the figure among late Hellenistic or Greek Imperial images of Aphrodite and Astarte. Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Richard Stillwell, ed., Antioch-on-the-Orontes III, The Excavations, 1937-1939, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1941), p. 117 no. 250, pl. 8 no. 250 Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 91, no. 75 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
