Head of Aphrodisias Fisherman
- Title:
- Head of Aphrodisias Fisherman
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mihaloew, Andreya
- Date:
- between 1989 and 2010
late 2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
late 3rd c. BCE (Hellenistic original)
2014 (image)
- Site:
- possibly Aphrodisias, Turkey (reproduction)
Aphrodisias, Turkey (discovery site of head, in the Portico of Tiberius, 1989) (original) - Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Ground floor showcase), Cornell University
possibly Aphrodisias, Turkey (reproduction)
Aphrodisias, Turkey (discovery site of head, in the Portico of Tiberius, 1989) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0843
- Accession Number:
- 584
- File Name:
- CCC_0843.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 26 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Fishing
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 24 x 19 x 21 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of the marble head of an old fisherman discovered at Aphrodisias in 1989 and now in the museum at Geyre, Turkey. The old man looks ahead with heavy-lidded eyes. Irises and pupils are indicated by incision. He has a short beard and is partially bald. Wavy hair surrounds the back of his head. The lips are parted and upper teeth are articulated. Age and a lifetime of hard work are conveyed by pronounced wrinkles that appear at the forehead and outer corners of the eyes and by loose, sagging facial skin. The head of the original has sustained some damage, primarily to the ears and nose, but brows, hair, and beard are also mildly battered.
The head belongs with parts of limbs and the plinth from the storerooms at Aphrodisias and with a torso in Berlin that was discovered at Aphrodisias in 1904. The work is as an example of the Vatican-Louvre Old Fisherman type, a type with variants that exists in more than twenty copies.
Gift from Abguss-Sammlung der Freie Universität Berlin, given to Cornell on 9/24/2010 - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 87-3 - Bibliography:
- R. R. R. Smith, "Marble Workshops at Aphrodisias," in F. D'Andria and I. Romeo, eds., Roman Sculpture in Asia Minor, JRA Suppl. 80 (2011), 62-76
Charlotte Roueché and R. R. R. Smith, eds., Aphrodisias Papers 3, JRA Suppl. 27 (1996), 20, 57-63
Brunilde S. Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of ca. 331-200 B.C. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 332-337
Rune Frederiksen and R. R. R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 2011), 269, H-13 (cast of head), and 275, H-35 (reconstruction from extant fragments)
Eva Bayer, Fischerbilder in der hellenistischen Plastik (Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, 1983)
http://arachne.uni-koeln.de
http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=698407&viewType=detailView - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Geyre, Turkey, Aphrodisias Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.