Statuette of a Woman

Class and production: sculpture

Cultural context: Greek-hellenistic period

Date: end of the 3rd century B.C./ beginning of the 2nd century B.C., 210 B.C. - 190 B.C.

Description

Draped female figure wearing chiton and himation. The statuette may have been part of a high relief. E.Soccal assigned this work to the production of female figures that harks back to classical experiences from Praxiteles around the middle of the 4th century B.C. The iconography is that of Hygeia, the godness of good health and a daughter of the medicine-god Asclepios, whose cult was associated with the one of her father. Due to the rendering of the drapery and the style of the piece the statue can be dated between the end of the 3rd century B.C. and the beginning of the 2nd century B.C.

Materials and techniques: white marble, coarse-grained/ sculpture

Dimensions: height 30.8 cm, lenght 13.2 cm

Provenance: Mantova Benavides Collection, Padua; Vallisneri Collection, Padua

University of Padua, Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art

Cat. Number: MB94

Bibliography

• Soccal Eva, 5.Statuetta femminile frammentaria, in Un Museo di Antichità nella Padova del Cinquecento. La raccolta di Marco Mantova Benavides all'Università di Padova, a cura di Irene Favaretto, Alessandra Menegazzi, Roma, Giorgio Bretschneider, 2013, p. 28.