Harvard Art Museums > 1919.507: Torso of a Standing Man 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"Torso of a Standing Man , 1919.507,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 04, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292558. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1919.507 Title Torso of a Standing Man Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 50 BCE Period Hellenistic period, Late Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292558 Physical Descriptions Medium Pentelic marble Dimensions actual: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Probably from Athens. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William de Forest Thomson Accession Year 1919 Object Number 1919.507 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 199048 Torso of a Standing Man The workmanship is crude, the back hardly modeled. The head and neck are broken away, as are the right arm from the area above the elbow and the lower areas of the drapery, as well as the plinth. The man wears his cloak over the left shoulder; the right hand appears to hold the edge of his cloak as it falls down along his right side. The left leg is preserved almost to the left foot, and it shows the weight was on the right leg. The object held in the left hand, in front of the folds of the cloak, may be a bird, in which case this could be a small statue of Asklepios or a person making an offering to the god of medicine. Perhaps this is a statue of Hippocrates. The bird ought to be a cock or rooster, since pet birds are generally held by children in Attic funerary sculpture (as in the stele of Melisto, about 340 B.C., no. 24, above), but the surfaces are too worn to say with confidence here. When Asklepios himself is accompanied by a cock, the bird is usually being offered to him by an attendant (or Gallus, making a sacrifice), as in the Juturna precinct near the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum (Boni, 1901, pp. 114-117, fig. 75). These representations are usually connected with statues in which Asklepios holds a rotulus or scroll in one hand, which could conceivably be the case here if the god rather than Hippocrates or a votary were represented. 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. 65, no. 48 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
