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Red-brown rectangular fragment with low relief decoration of right profile of a youthful woman with feathered wings

This red-brown terracotta rectangular fragment is decorated in low relief with an image of a youthful woman with feathered wings. She is seen in right profile. Her head and hair, which is pulled back into a ponytail, fills the upper right corner of the fragment. Her body extends diagonally downward to the lower left corner of the fragment, where it is chipped at where her knee would have been. She gazes downward, extending her right arm, which is broken off at her elbow, outward to where she is gazing. She wears a thin dress that flows behind her.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
63.1908
Title
Fragment of Arretine Ware: Winged Victory
Classification
Fragments
Work Type
sherd
Date
100 BCE-100 CE
Period
Roman Imperial period, Early
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293481

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Molded
Dimensions
2.8 × 4.7 cm (1 1/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from Estate of Donald Upham and Mrs. R. U. Hunter
Object Number
63.1908
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George H. Chase and Mary Zelia Pease, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 8, Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), p. 49, pl. XXX.9

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