1920.44.167: Left Hand Grasping Wreath
SculptureIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.167
- Title
- Left Hand Grasping Wreath
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 250-100 BCE
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292319
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Low-grade Attic marble
- Dimensions
- 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.167
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
74
Left Hand Grasping a Wreath
The hand is broken across just behind the thumb and is damaged between thumb and index finger.
This hand seems to be that of a boy, and a votive or funerary statue of the type found on Cyprus might come to mind. Such statues were usually carved in local limestone, but there are examples in imported marbles.
Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer
Publication History
- Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 90, no. 74
Verification Level
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