Harvard Art Museums > 2003.100.42: Seated Goddess on Throne, pulling aside her veil Sculpture Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Seated Goddess on Throne, pulling aside her veil , 2003.100.42,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 14, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/92077. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2003.100.42 Title Seated Goddess on Throne, pulling aside her veil Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date c. 470-450 BCE Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/92077 Physical Descriptions Medium Terracotta, mold made Dimensions 19.5 x 11.5 x 8 cm (7 11/16 x 4 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Ex collection Professor Mason HAmmond, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Departments of the Classics and of History, Harvard University Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the daughters of Florence and Mason Hammond Accession Year 2003 Object Number 2003.100.42 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 Description Perhaps from a provincial South Italian workshop, Intact statuette. Object is very heavy and made of dark, reddish-brown clay with traces of plaster or whitish incrustation on back covering areas of smoothing. Also evident on lower left side under the throne and in interstices on the molded surface. The bottom of the object is hollow and was assembled from a flat back and a mold-made front. A female figure, seated frontally wearing a peplos like garment, draws aside a veil with her left hand and holds a lobed phiale tipped downward in her right. The veil protrudes from a thicker, cap-like headdresss. Her ears are marked by indistinct rounded earrings. A small mold-made figure of a deer stands beneath the phiale and adjoining her right leg. Her knees and lower legs are covered with a long garment that covers her ankles. Her feet rest upon a footstool. Below her left arm the surface of the throne extends outward. It is supported by a low molding which sits atop a smaller, rectangular support which finally sits upon a flat plinth. Numerous cracks and breaks suggest that the piece has been mended and restored. The figure was impressed from a worn mold. Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or 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
