Marble Statue of a Seated Muse in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2012

Title: Marble statue of a seated muse

Period: Imperial

Date: 1st or 2nd century CE

Culture: Roman

Medium: Marble, Pentelic

Dimensions: H. as restored 66 in. (167.7 cm.)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903

Accession Number: 03.12.16

Copy of a Greek statue of the 3rd century B.C.

Seated on a rock, with her head resting on her right hand, this muse was probably part of a group of statues showing a musical contest between the boastful satyr Marsyas and the god Apollo. The statue was part of the collection of antiquities acquired in Rome by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247003