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Torso of Ganymede, grasped by claws of eagle, frontal view. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Torso of Ganymede
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 127
- Date
- 180-250 AD , Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, MANISA
- Museum Inventory No.
- MANISA
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S59.066A
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Trench
- Screen Colonnade 59
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W32.00 / N60.00 *98.25 - 98.00
- Findspot
- BWH
- Description
Ganymede is grasped on r. hip and at l. side of waist by claws of the eagle. He wears a chlamys fastened with large round brooch in the center of his chest. Folds of chlamys and separations of claws are made by deep drill runs.
Drill work suggests a date in the late 2nd or early 3rd C. A.D.
- Condition
Fine-grained marble, weathered gray.
Neck to l. thigh of Ganymede and the claws of eagle preserved.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.165; W. at claws 0.11; D. at belly 0.065.
- Comments
- Statue of Ganymede by Leochares mentioned by Pliny (Natural History 34.79). Cf. Richter, Sculpture, 285f. and fig. 737; Arndt-Amelung-Lippold, Einzelaufnahmen, no. 239. For recently discovered Ganymede and eagle, Marcadé-Raftopoulou, Sculptures Argiennes II, fig. 96. For Ganymede from Sperlonga see Iacopi, Sperlonga, 114-117, figs. 109-111; H. Sichtermann in Kraus, 246, Weltreich, pl. 263.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR