Harvard Art Museums > 1920.44.134: Architectural Fragment with a Standing Female Figure Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Architectural Fragment with a Standing Female Figure , 1920.44.134,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 28, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292179. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1920.44.134 Title Architectural Fragment with a Standing Female Figure Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date c. 380 BCE-250 BCE Period Classical period, Late, to Early Hellenistic Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292179 Physical Descriptions Medium Pentelic marble Dimensions 20.3 x 7 cm (8 x 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 1920.44.134 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 199033 Greek Architecture Fragment with a Standing Female Figure Right parastade or pillar of a rectangular votive relief. The lower right corner and a section of the right side survive. The figure in low relief on the front surface is a woman standing to the left, a long torch in her right hand. The image of a woman with a long torch ought to suggest a dedication to Artemis, Hekate, or the divinities of Eleusis. Three types of reliefs have figures in this position. There are the dedications to divinities within a rectangular naiskos or aedicula with pilasters left and right and a roof above. Such reliefs are usually crowded with mortals as well as divinities receiving honors (Reinach, 1909-1912, 11, p. 324 in Athens). Single divinities in temple-form niches also can have dedicators in relief on the pilasters, as a seated Cybele in Athens (Reinach, 1909-1912, 11, p. 338, no. 4). There are also such figures, usually small athletes or servants, against the pilasters of reliefs with funerary banquets as the central theme (Reinach, 1909-1912, 11, p. 412, no. 1, p. 413, nos. 1, 2). 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. 47, no. 33 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
