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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.44.133
Title
Front of the Left Foot of a Statue of Eros or a Child (?)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
100 BCE-130 CE
Period
Hellenistic period, Late, to Early Roman Imperial
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292178

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble from Naxos, the Roman Imperial quarries
Dimensions
8.9 x 7.62 cm (3 1/2 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.

Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
1920.44.133
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
77

Front of the Left Foot of a Statue of Eros or a Child (?)

The ends of the toes are scraped or, as in the case of the big toe, broken away. The break across the beginning of the instep is very irregular. The bottom of the foot was worked and finished but was damaged when the fragment lay bottom up in the soil or on an ancient site.

The chubby, childlike nature of the foot suggests identification of the subject. Perhaps this foot was raised, and that is why the underside of what remains appears to have been finished. The date of the carving could be any time from 100 B.C. (before the sack of Delos) to Hadrianic times (around A.D. 130, the period of much of the sculpture from Salamis on Cyprus).

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. 92, no. 77

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