1942.233: Small Statuette of a Goddess
Sculpture
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.233
- Title
- Small Statuette of a Goddess
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statue, sculpture
- Date
- c. 200 CE
- Period
- Roman period
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291642
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1942), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1942.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.233
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Hera-Juno wears a himation pulled over her head and a high-girt chiton. She probably held a patera in her right hand and a staff in her raised left hand (both now missing). This statuette may have been part of a portable household shrine.
Publication History
- Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 199
- Cornelius C. Vermeule III, Greek and Roman Sculpture in Gold and Silver (Boston, 1974), p. 21, no. 62
- Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Iuno 204.
Verification Level
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