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Athena torso, frontal view. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Athena Torso
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 113
- Date
- Hellenistic or 1st C. AD, Hellenistic
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4081
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4081
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S59.025
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure, Human Figure
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- BS
- Trench
- BS 59
- Locus
- BS Locus BS-W 8 (Area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W32.00 - W36.00 / S3.80 *97.50
- Findspot
- BS
- Description
She wears a girt “Phidian” peplos arranged with a vertical fold from l. shoulder to the belt. The aegis has a gorgoneion and snakes on the upper and lower rims. Position of neck and hair on r. shoulder shows that the head was turned diagonally to proper l. (and upwards?). R. arm was raised, l. lowered and bent. Head and r. arm were doweled in, also l. arm below shoulder. Another dowel hole is on back of r. shoulder.
Careful chisel work and moderate use of drill (only on the aegis corner on her r. shoulder) suggest a good copy, not later than 1st C. A.D., of a 5th C. B.C. original.
- Condition
Marble.
Neck to below waist preserved. R. side discolored as if from burning.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.21.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR