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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.44.134
Title
Architectural Fragment with a Standing Female Figure
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 380 BCE-250 BCE
Period
Classical period, Late, to Early Hellenistic
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292179

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pentelic marble
Dimensions
20.3 x 7 cm (8 x 2 3/4 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
1920.44.134
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
33 Greek

Architecture Fragment with a Standing Female Figure

Right parastade or pillar of a rectangular votive relief. The lower right corner and a section of the right side survive.

The figure in low relief on the front surface is a woman standing to the left, a long torch in her right hand. The image of a woman with a long torch ought to suggest a dedication to Artemis, Hekate, or the divinities of Eleusis. Three types of reliefs have figures in this position. There are the dedications to divinities within a rectangular naiskos or aedicula with pilasters left and right and a roof above. Such reliefs are usually crowded with mortals as well as divinities receiving honors (Reinach, 1909-1912, 11, p. 324 in Athens). Single divinities in temple-form niches also can have dedicators in relief on the pilasters, as a seated Cybele in Athens (Reinach, 1909-1912, 11, p. 338, no. 4). There are also such figures, usually small athletes or servants, against the pilasters of reliefs with funerary banquets as the central theme (Reinach, 1909-1912, 11, p. 412, no. 1, p. 413, nos. 1, 2).

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. 47, no. 33

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