1942.233: Small Statuette of a Goddess

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.

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