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Triple head of Hekate, Louvre MA 3249. (Photographs by Chuzeville, courtesy of Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Triple Head of Hekate
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 248
- Date
- Roman?, Roman?
- Museum
- Paris, Louvre, MA 3249
- Museum Inventory No.
- MA 3249
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Louvre MA3249
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Allegedly from Sardis; given to the museum by P. Gaudin, 1901.
- Description
- The central head of the Hekateion has circular locks and a floral crown. The two lateral heads have ribbons in their hair which is parted in the center and falls in long locks on their shoulders. They wear turreted crowns. There are incised lines on each neck (for a necklace?). A crescent and rosette are on the slanting top of the central pillar. The style is rude and linear, probably of the 2nd or 3rd C. A.D.?
- Condition
Marble.
Broken at bottom; back rough-chiseled; faces damaged.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.18; W. 0.175; H. of l. face 0.117.
- Comments
- Cf. also a Hekateion from Alaşehir (Cat. 263 Fig. 453).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: Héron de Villefosse & Michon, Erwerbungen des Louvre, 124, no. 50; L. Robert, Villes et monnaies, 155, n. 3. For Hekateia cf. Harrison, Agora XI, 86ff. and Th. Kraus, Hekate.
- Author
- NHR