Harvard Art Museums > 1924.33: Torso of a Woman, perhaps an Amazon or Artemis Bendis 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"Torso of a Woman, perhaps an Amazon or Artemis Bendis , 1924.33,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292053. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1924.33 Title Torso of a Woman, perhaps an Amazon or Artemis Bendis Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date c. 200 CE Period Roman Imperial period, Middle Culture Roman Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292053 Physical Descriptions Medium Marble, seemingly from mainland Greece Dimensions 30.5 cm (12 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Miss Elizabeth G. Norton Accession Year 1924 Object Number 1924.33 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 199088 Torso, Fragmentary, of a Woman, perhaps an Amazon or Artemis Bendis The surfaces are weathered, and the marble is discolored to a darkish brown. The date of this figure is undoubtedly in the late second or probably the third century of the Empire. The figure wears a girt tunic, of rough workmanship, with flat modeling. The belt also wraps what appears to be a heavy short cloak covering the shoulders and suggesting the beginning of a hood (a Thracian cap?) for the now missing head. The head and the arms from the edges of the tunic were made separately and joined with dowels or pins. This lady in Thracian garb could be a late version of an Amazon, but single statues in this costume usually represent Artemis Bendis who, from the fourth century B.C. onward, at least, was worshiped in the greater Athens area, chiefly on the way to the Piraeus where Thracians were settled. 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. 103, no. 88 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
