SCULPTURE

Female portrait statue Γ89

  Museum/Current place of storage: Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
  Inv. no: -
  Dimensions:
  Material: H. 1,60m.
  Findspot:

Epidauros (based on the large fragment of the right calf marked with the indication “from the Epidauros storage chest”). Catalogued and re-assembled from twenty fragments found in the museum’s storerooms in 1973.
  Original Display Location:

In the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas and Asklepios.
  Date: Principate of Augustus (?).
  Statuary Type (body) :

Variant of the “Formia” statuary type.
  Mode of Self-Representation (head): -
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Unknown.
  Inscribed Base: No
  Author: Panagiotis Konstantinidis
  Added: 2024-04-26
  Edited: 2024-09-13

Description - Comments:

The figure is depicted standing, with the left leg bearing the weight, while the right is relaxed and slightly bent. The inset head, part of the center of the chest, the lower back part of the body, the base, the left forearm and the right hand are missing. Chipping is observed sporadically on the surface of the marble. The figure wears a long chiton and a long himation wrapped tightly around the body and forming the characteristic triangular shape of the 'Formia' statuary type below the breasts as it passes from the right shoulder to the bent left forearm. Here, however, the himation’s end on the left falls over its triangularly folded part, while the placement of the arms is also slightly different.

Bibliography:

N. Gialouris, “Χρονικά των αρχαιολογικών εργασιών στην Ελλάδα κατά το 1973 και 1974. Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο”, ArchDelt 29 Β1 (1973-1974), 2 no. ι, pl. 5α; A. Filges, Standbilder jugendlicher Göttinnen, Köln-Weimar-Wien 1997, 162 note 640 no. 2; N. Kazakidi, “Ένα οικογενειακό σύνταγμα ανδριάντων της εποχής του Κλαυδίου και το γυμνάσιο στη Σικυώνα”, in Th. Stefanidou-Tiveriou, P. Karanastasi, D. Damaskos eds., Κλασική παράδοση και νεωτερικά στοιχεία στην πλαστική της ρωμαϊκής Ελλάδας, πρακτικά διεθνούς συνεδρίου, Θεσσαλονίκη, 7-9 Μαΐου 2009, Thessaloniki 2012, 206 note 44.