Hekate
- Date
- 2nd C. AD, Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 375
- Museum Inventory No.
- 375
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 375
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure
- Site
- Alaşehir (Philadelphia)
- Findspot
- From Alaşehir
- Description
The three-headed Hekate has a common trunk and polos, and three arms. The faces are badly worn, but are flat, with prominent rounded chins. The hair, parted in the middle, falls in undifferentiated tresses to the shoulders. Breasts are clearly delineated beneath her high-girt peplos which has V-shaped folds between breasts, and, below the high belt, some V- and some U-shaped folds. The bottom of the overfall is rounded. The undergarment has softened U-shaped folds at the corners, and a central vertical fold between the legs on each side.
The arms are stump-like and lack modeling; the figure is stocky. Drapery is linear in concept, typically archaistic, even though some depth is achieved in the folds. There is no evidence of the drill. A Hellenistic date is possible but the stocky proportions and treatment of anatomy look Roman, probably 2nd C. A.D.
- Condition
Marble.
Broken and repaired at neck. All three lower arms broken off. Broken below knees. Top of polos missing.
- Dimensions
- H. ca. 0.325.
- Comments
- On Hekateia, see Harrison, Agora XI, 86ff. and Th. Kraus, Hekate. Cf. esp. with Harrison, ibid., 101, no. 140, pl. 34 and 104-105, no. 151, pl. 37. Cf. also Hekateion from Sardis (Cat. 248, Fig. 429-430).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR