Museum/Current place of storage: |
Athens, National Archaeological Museum. |
Inv. no: |
Γ 3788 |
Dimensions: |
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Material: |
H. 1,80m. (with the base). |
Findspot: |
In Athens, “near the gun-powder factory” (for the area of Athens, near the First Cemetery of the city, called "πυριτιδαποθήκη" ["gunpowder warehouse"] see Ο. Vizyinou, Αρχείον των Μνημείων των Αθηνών και της Αττικής 4, Athens 2007, 311). |
Original Display Location: |
Unknown. |
Date: |
Antonine period (160-170 CE?). |
Statuary Type (body) : |
“Fortuna Braccio Nuovo”. |
Mode of Self-Representation (head): |
- |
Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): |
Unknown. |
Inscribed Base: |
No. |
Author: |
Panagiotis Konstantinidis |
Added: |
2024-09-07 |
Edited: |
Description - Comments:
The head, the entire right arm, the left hand, the right foot, and the tip of the left foot are missing. Small breaks and chipping are evident on the surface of the garments (non vidi). It reproduces the “Fortuna Braccio Nuovo” statuary type; another portrait statue in the same type has been unearthed in the city of Athens, in the NE cemetery ({Γ55}; ibid. also for the statuary type). The type has been used for the representation of the goddess Tyche/Fortuna, as well as for relatively few female portrait statues from the Antonine period onwards. The present statue also belongs to the same period (see Nippe 1989, 27, 28).
Bibliography:
C. Nippe, Die Fortuna Braccio Nuovo: stilistische und typologische Untersuchung, Berlin 1989, 27, 28, 89, cat. no. Κ21 with references (160-170 CE); A. Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses: eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna, Mainz am Rhein 2004, 232, no. 4; https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1093297.