Terracotta figurine of girls playing ephedrismos
- Title:
- Terracotta figurine of girls playing ephedrismos
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Fritz Gurlitt (Gallery) (reproduction)
Unknown (original)
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
early 3rd c. BCE
- Site:
- Berlin, Germany (reproduction)
Unknown, said to have come from Corinth (original) - Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Ground floor showcase), Cornell University
previously, 726 University Avenue
Berlin, Germany (reproduction)
Unknown, said to have come from Corinth (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0590
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 455
Gurlitt XXVIII
455 (sticker on front)
black point sticker
written in black on back: E.G.
written in pencil underneath: Sab. II pl. 81
598 - File Name:
- CCC_0590.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 26 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- Hellenistic Greek
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- terracotta, handcolored
recreation
terracotta sculpture in the round, mold-made (original) - Subject:
- Terracotta figurines, Greek
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 30.7 (with pedestal) x 28.7 (without pedestal) (centimeters, height x height)
pedestal: 18 x 13.2 (centimeters, width x diameter) - Description:
- This is a terracotta replica of a terracotta figurine group of two young women playing ephedrismos. The original is housed in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. The game-- represented plentifully in Greek art--involved the loser's carrying on her back the winner of an initial rock-throwing contest in the game (Pollux IX, 119). Here, the game's loser moves forward with her left leg advanced holding the winner on her back. She is fully draped, but her garment has slipped below her right shoulder. A braided wreath encircles her wavy hair, which is pulled up into a knot at the back. The game's winner rides side-saddle on the back of the other, resting her arms on the other young woman's shoulders. She, too, is fully draped and her hair is bound by a thick fabric band and pulled into a knot at the back. In this replica, the women's hair has been painted red, the skin white, and the drapery a variegated mix of pale orange, blue, and off-white, only partially reflective of the polychromy of the original in its current state. The original is well-preserved, with fingers missing from the piggy-back rider. This replica has sustained some minor damage: the left hand of the girl riding piggy-back is broken away at the wrist, her head has been broken away and glued in place, and her hair knot is chipped. This piece was transferred to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg in 1884 from the collection of Peter Alexandrovich Saburov, a Russian diplomat and collector of antiquities. It was said to have come from Corinth where, along with Boeotia and West Greece, the ephedrismos figurine type was popular. This replica is no. 35 in Gurlitt's sale catalog.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. ГР-5390 - Bibliography:
- Adolphe Furtwaengler, La Collection Sabouroff: Monuments de l'Art Grec, vol. II (Berlin: A. Asher, 1883-1887), pl. LXXXI
Jenifer Neils and John Oakley, Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 275
Reynold Higgins, Tanagra and the Figurines (London: Trefoil Books, 1986)
I. Kriseleit and G. Zimmer (eds.), Bürgerwelten (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1994)
Gloria S. Merker, The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods. Corinth Vol. XVIII, Part IV (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2000), 200-201
Violaine Jeammet, ed., Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity. The Musée du Louvre's Collection of Greek Figurines (Valencia: Fundación Bancaja, 2010), 182
Illustrated catalogue of the series of Fritz Gurlitt's Tanagra figures (London: A. Siegle, 1885), no. 35 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
St. Petersburg, Hermitage (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.