R2 Cat. 107

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Antonine (Roman)

The head was turned slightly to r. The face is framed by long hair, which is brushed up from the forehead and falls in long continuous curls to the neck, and by full beard. Stop-and-go drill marks are profuse in both hair and beard. Where preserved, ...

R2 Cat. 109

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

(Hellenistic)

The child wears an overgarment belted beneath the chest and falling in gentle folds about the top of the legs. The belt continues around to the back, which is slightly less carefully worked. A drooping neckline shows the upper chest. An undergarment ...

R2 Cat. 110

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C AD (Roman)

The archaising head has three rows of corkscrew curls, elongated eyes, a drooping moustache, and heavy beard, with bottom corners broken off. One lock of hair is at each side of head. The rectangular shaft had a horizontal strut on both sides. A hole...

R2 Cat. 111

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

(Hellenistic or Roman)

The nude female had her weight on r. leg, l. leg forward. On outside of r. leg is a trace of an attribute or support. Workmanship is simple but effective. The modeling is somewhat hard, and therefore perhaps Roman but no technical points prove it.

R2 Cat. 112

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Late Hellenistic or early Roman, possibly Hadrianic (Hellenistic or Roman)

The skirt consists of three central vertical folds (two wide, one narrow), vertical folds also at each side, and gracefully falling shallow arched folds over the fronts of the thighs. This arrangement of the skirt suggests that our figure is an Amazo...

R2 Cat. 113

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Hellenistic or 1st C. AD (Hellenistic)

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 pro...

R2 Cat. 114

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Late Hellenistic or early Roman (Hellenistic or Roman)

The lion skin tied on the chest is summarily rendered on the back like a cloak. Crude abrasive is used. R. arm was raised, l. lowered. Surface at hips very smooth, with round drilled hole (W. 0.009; D. 0.007; narrower hole within, D. 0.007), showing ...

R2 Cat. 115

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. AD (Roman)

Lion skin is tied on chest and falls diagonally in back towards proper l. hip, where it was held by l. hand resting on hip. R. arm was stretched forward.

Body and stance are Polykleitan, and the torso and stomach are well modeled. Drill work, especial...

R2 Cat. 116

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd C. AD (Roman)

The exaggerated musculature of the chest and abdomen of this nude figure is emphasized by the shift of weight onto the proper r. leg, the r. hip thrown out. The fisted r. hand rests on the back of the hip. These features, combined with the fold of dr...

R2 Cat. 117

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st or early 2nd C. AD (Roman)

Nebris of satyr is tied over r. shoulder. He was dancing, with l. leg forward and crossing the r., and r. arm raised above his head, as is clear from the stump of shoulder. Upper part of torso does not show marked twist, however. Entire back is unfin...

R2 Cat. 118

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Hadrianic (Roman)

Satyr wears a nebris with goat head and foot hanging in front over his l. shoulder, where it is bound with a clasp. R. foot is slung over his shoulder in back. Upper edge of goatskin, doubled over and hanging loosely, is plastically modeled. The back...

R2 Cat. 119

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. or 3rd C. AD? (Roman)

The head is turned to its r. The open mouth is gracefully curved. Inner corners of eyes are set deeply under the heavy brow. It has pointed satyr ears. The hair is in locks brushed loosely away from face, separated by wide, deep channels. A fillet is...

R2 Cat. 120

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Hadrianic or early Antonine (Roman)

The nude god with weight on r. leg, l. shoulder slightly drawn back is modeled on a 4th C. Praxitelean type. Long wavy locks fall on both shoulders.

Very competent well-modeled, well-polished work. Systematic but restrained use of stop-and-go running ...

R2 Cat. 122

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd or 4th C. AD (Roman)

Dionysus stands with his feet planted firmly on the ground, his weight distributed evenly. At his r. is a seated panther, his front l. paw raised and resting on an outcrop of the stone base. His head is missing. At the l. of Dionysus stood a satyr. F...

R2 Cat. 123

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd C. AD (Roman)

The leg, large and well-modeled, is worked in one piece with a hefty tree trunk. The front of the tree trunk is covered with winding grape vine, the back is smoothed by a flat chisel plus abrasive. The leg, too, though smoother, shows similar rough a...

R2 Cat. 124

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. AD (Roman)

Lower part of a triton has a twisting tail set at an angle to the plinth. It curves in two directions and turns in on itself. Front of upper tail is covered with four rows of large overlapping leaf-like scales with slightly ridged surfaces. Inner sid...

R2 Cat. 126

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. AD (Roman)

R. arm is against his side; l. arm is covered by the cloak which falls vertically in front and crosses diagonally to r. armpit in back. Musculature of chest and stomach is indicated in broad planes. R. hip is higher, thus weight is on r. leg.

The work...

R2 Cat. 127

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

180-250 AD (Roman)

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 d...

R2 Cat. 128

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd half of 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The head of Tyche is preserved from the crown to base of neck. She wears a crescent diadem with a crown of turrets. A mantel flows down the side of the crown behind her hair. The neck is slanted forward to her r. and the head turned back slightly to ...

R2 Cat. 129

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st half of 3rd C. AD (Roman)

Her weight is on l. leg, r. leg bent and drawn back. Her r. arm was probably held out, holding plektron, and l. holding kithara. She leans with l. leg against a simply profiled altar which supports the kithara on top. Muse wears high-girt chiton with...

R2 Cat. 130

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

(Hellenistic or Roman)

The slightly larger than lifesize foot is crossed by a sandal strap below base of toes. A heart-shaped attachment joins it to a second perpendicular strap which crosses between big and second toes. The attachment is decorated by Medusa head, with sna...

R2 Cat. 131

Sculpture

Steatite, Serpentine, Stone

1st or 2nd C. AD? (Roman)

R. foot rests on the base and is freestanding except for an attachment at the inner side of the back. L. foot is advanced in relief. The stylized feet and toes are elongated. The slanted break above the ankles is smoothed and left with a ridge used, ...

R2 Cat. 132

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd half of 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The foot is about one and a half times lifesize. The drill was used only sparingly, at the outer ends of the divisions between the toes and to separate the big toe. Carefully chiseled channels divide the other toes. The bone structure and musculature...

R2 Cat. 133

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

5th C. AD (Late Roman)

Around the wrist is a large band, a bracelet, which ends or peters out on the underside of the arm. The fingers were separated first by sharp drilled rows of holes which were then cut away with sharp chisel strokes. The hand holds an object which was...

R2 Cat. 134

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

mid-3rd C. BC (Hellenistic)

The stele is tall and rectangular, tapering slightly toward the top. It is crowned by a pediment with three acroteria, the center one of which bears traces of a palmette; the two at the sides were not carved. On the face of the shaft is a recessed re...