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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.131
Title
Arm from a Small Statue
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
3rd century CE
Period
Roman Imperial period, Late
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291336

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
10 cm (3 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Excavated from Antioch, sector 16-P (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
1940.131
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
100

Arm from a Small Statue

The surfaces of the drapery over the upper part of this arm and the part of the arm preserved to the joint at the elbow are smoothly finished. The remains of large iron pegs, much corroded, protrude at either end, the peg closest to the shoulder having rusted into an irregular shape. The surfaces are stained brown from the iron pegs in either end. The marble is from Asia Minor.

This appears to be the left arm from a small statue of a ruler with cloak on his left shoulder and left upper arm, or of a hero similarly represented. It is impossible to say whether the subject was wearing a cuirass or was shown in the heroic nude.

Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer

Publication History

  • 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. 112, no. 100

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