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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
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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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