Description - Comments:

The statue is preserved essentially intact, with the exception of the inset head. Small breaks and chipping are evident sporadically on the surface of the marble, especially along the ridges of the folds of the garments. Traces of weathering are also evident on the marble surface. The rear has a rougher finish, indicating that it was not meant to be seen. It depicts a frontal female figure, standing on a circular plinth and wearing a long chiton, a himation tightly enveloping most of her body (including the arms) to about knee height, and closed leather shoes (calcei muliebres). The statue follows closely the statuary type of the so-called “Large Herculaneum Woman” (the hands hold the edges of the himation in the characteristic of the statuary type manner, forming a kind of triangle on the right part of the torso). Manneristic work of the late Antonine or early Severian period.

Bibliography:

G.A.S. Snijder, Romeinsche Kustgeschiedenis, Groningen 1925, 35, pl. 3, fig. 11; H. Kruse, Römische weibliche Gewandstatuen des zweiten jahrhunderts n.Chr., Göttingen 1975, 263, no. 129; A. Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses: eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna, Mainz am Rhein 2004, 242, no. 137; J. Trimble, Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture, Cambridge 2011, 367, cat. no. 8 (late Antonine or Severan).