Archaistic Artemis from Pompeii
- Title:
- Archaistic Artemis from Pompeii
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mihaloew, Andreya
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 1st c. BCE to 1st c.-CE
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Pompeii, Italy (discovery site, House 2 or 3, Regio VIII) (original)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room 128), Cornell University
previously, Warehouse
Pompeii, Italy (discovery site, House 2 or 3, Regio VIII) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0925
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 95
95 (tag on plinth)
269 - File Name:
- CCC_0925.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 111 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, Archaistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Artemis (Greek deity)
Diana (Roman deity) - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 116.5 x 25 x 56 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of an under-life-sized archaizing statue of Artemis from Pompeii that is held in Naples. In archaic style, the goddess strides ahead stiffly with her left foot advanced and arms lowered. Her drapery, a short-sleeved, long chiton with mantle, falls in zig-zag folds. The strap of her quiver crosses her chest. Her hair is arranged in archaic waves, is bound low at the back, and falls in curly locks to her shoulders. She looks ahead with little expression and wears a rosette-decorated diadem. Pigment is preserved in many places on the original. Two additional copies of this type are known, suggesting either the existence of a common earlier prototype, or that this an archaizing creation of the Roman era that was multiply-produced. The cast was conserved in the summer and fall of 2016, before which the head was separated from the body and the body was defaced with graffiti.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 6008 - Bibliography:
- Mary-Anne Zagdoun, La sculpture archaïsante dans l'art hellénistique et dans l'art romain du Haut-Empire (Athènes : Ecole française d'Athènes, 1989), 195, 243, no. 287, pl. 64 fig. 232.
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), 137, C 3.
J. J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 184, fig. 194.
Paul Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, trans. by Alan Shapiro (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990), 244-245, fig. 189. - Related Work:
- Prior to 4/20/2017, the body and detached head were cataloged separately as ID nos. 269 and 269a. The record associated with no. 269a has been deleted.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Naples, National Archaeological 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.