1977.216.2206.A: Standing Nude Man
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1977.216.2206.A
- Title
- Standing Nude Man
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statuette
- Date
- 4th-1st century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Smyrna (Ionia)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/47945
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 18 x 7.5 cm (7 1/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Fogg Museum Classical Collection
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.216.2206.A
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Incomplete figurine; missing both arms, and legs from just above the knee. Ornaments on head partly broken.
Standing man, nude. Head turned to right with worried expression. Short curly hair with two protruding ornaments; perhaps wings for a Hermes. Wrinkled forehead; pronounced brow; parted lips. Body curves slightly to right, with right leg engaged. Clasp of cloak on left shoulder. Lysippic proportions: elongated body, small head.
Would have been originally painted, now only traces of white ground are extant.
Hollow. Mold-made. No venthole.
Reddish-brown clay with small particles of mica. Hard-fired.
Verification Level
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