Description - Comments:

The figure is fragmentarily preserved. The inset head, the lower left part of the figure (along the surface of the garments), the right hand, part of the himation below the left shoulder along with the left forearm, and the protruding parts of the feet with the front of the plinth are missing. Traces of weathering and chipping are evident on the surface of the marble. The back side is more roughly worked than the front. The “dry”, “manneristic” rendering of the drapery places the statue in the 2nd c. CE.

Bibliography:

H. Kruse, Römische weibliche Gewandstatuen des zweiten jahrhunderts n.Chr., Göttingen 1975, 261, no. 37; Ε. Sapouna-Sakellaraki, Chalikis, History, Topography and Museum, Athens 1995, 51; A. Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses: eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna, Mainz am Rhein 2004, 240, no. 39 (reign of Trajan); J. Trimble, Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture, Cambridge 2011, 367-368, no. 11; A. Simosi, Αρέθουσα. Το Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Χαλκίδας, Athens 2022, 190 (1st c. BC – 1st c. CE); P. Konstantinidis, Γυναικείοι δυναστικοί εικονιστικοί ανδριάντες αυτοκρατορικής περιόδου από την Ελλάδα (τέλη 1ου αι. π.Χ. – 5ος αι. μ.Χ.), Athens 2024, 208, note 78.