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Title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine Date: 130–161 CE Culture: Roman Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. with plinth 80 in. (203.2 cm.) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 Object Number: 03.12.15 Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247002

Title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine Date: 130–161 CE Culture: Roman Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. with plinth 80 in. (203.2 cm.) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 Object Number: 03.12.15 Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247002

Title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine Date: 130–161 CE Culture: Roman Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. with plinth 80 in. (203.2 cm.) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 Object Number: 03.12.15 Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247002

Title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine Date: 130–161 CE Culture: Roman Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. with plinth 80 in. (203.2 cm.) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 Object Number: 03.12.15 Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247002

Title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine Date: 130–161 CE Culture: Roman Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. with plinth 80 in. (203.2 cm.) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 Object Number: 03.12.15 Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247002

Title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine Date: 130–161 CE Culture: Roman Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. with plinth 80 in. (203.2 cm.) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 Object Number: 03.12.15 Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247002

Title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine Date: 130–161 CE Culture: Roman Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. with plinth 80 in. (203.2 cm.) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 Object Number: 03.12.15 Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247002

Title: Marble lamp Period: Archaic Date: 6th century BCE Culture: Greek Medium: Marble, Calcite Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm) diameter 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) Classification: Miscellaneous-Stone Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906 Object Number: 06.1072 Fragment of a marble lamp; in the panels, pairs of confronted sphinxes, sirens, and griffins; on the nozzles, pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds perched atop lotus flowers growing from palmettes. The sides are decorated in low relief with pairs of sphinxes, griffins, and sirens. The nozzles have pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds standing on lotus flowers. (The large fragment with rams' heads and the upper part of the griffins has been lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, L.1974.44.) Marble lamp, Marble, Calcite, Greek Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247490

Title: Marble lamp Period: Archaic Date: 6th century BCE Culture: Greek Medium: Marble, Calcite Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm) diameter 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) Classification: Miscellaneous-Stone Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906 Object Number: 06.1072 Fragment of a marble lamp; in the panels, pairs of confronted sphinxes, sirens, and griffins; on the nozzles, pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds perched atop lotus flowers growing from palmettes. The sides are decorated in low relief with pairs of sphinxes, griffins, and sirens. The nozzles have pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds standing on lotus flowers. (The large fragment with rams' heads and the upper part of the griffins has been lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, L.1974.44.) Marble lamp, Marble, Calcite, Greek Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247490

Title: Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache Period: Late Classical Date: ca. 375–350 BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Marble, Pentelic Dimensions: H. as restored 63 in. (160 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1949 Object Number: 49.11.4 Inscribed above the large standing figures, from left to right, Stratokleia Aiolos Aristomache Axiomache; below the seated woman, Leonike Restored foot, mouth, and most of neck and handle The deceased is presumably Aristomache, standing before her parents. She clasps the hand of her seated mother, while her father gestures to her. The group is flanked by two other female members of the family and two small servants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254614

Title: Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache Period: Late Classical Date: ca. 375–350 BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Marble, Pentelic Dimensions: H. as restored 63 in. (160 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1949 Object Number: 49.11.4 Inscribed above the large standing figures, from left to right, Stratokleia Aiolos Aristomache Axiomache; below the seated woman, Leonike Restored foot, mouth, and most of neck and handle The deceased is presumably Aristomache, standing before her parents. She clasps the hand of her seated mother, while her father gestures to her. The group is flanked by two other female members of the family and two small servants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254614

Title: Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache Period: Late Classical Date: ca. 375–350 BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Marble, Pentelic Dimensions: H. as restored 63 in. (160 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1949 Object Number: 49.11.4 Inscribed above the large standing figures, from left to right, Stratokleia Aiolos Aristomache Axiomache; below the seated woman, Leonike Restored foot, mouth, and most of neck and handle The deceased is presumably Aristomache, standing before her parents. She clasps the hand of her seated mother, while her father gestures to her. The group is flanked by two other female members of the family and two small servants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254614

Title: Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache Period: Late Classical Date: ca. 375–350 BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Marble, Pentelic Dimensions: H. as restored 63 in. (160 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1949 Object Number: 49.11.4 Inscribed above the large standing figures, from left to right, Stratokleia Aiolos Aristomache Axiomache; below the seated woman, Leonike Restored foot, mouth, and most of neck and handle The deceased is presumably Aristomache, standing before her parents. She clasps the hand of her seated mother, while her father gestures to her. The group is flanked by two other female members of the family and two small servants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254614

Title: Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache Period: Late Classical Date: ca. 375–350 BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Marble, Pentelic Dimensions: H. as restored 63 in. (160 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1949 Object Number: 49.11.4 Inscribed above the large standing figures, from left to right, Stratokleia Aiolos Aristomache Axiomache; below the seated woman, Leonike Restored foot, mouth, and most of neck and handle The deceased is presumably Aristomache, standing before her parents. She clasps the hand of her seated mother, while her father gestures to her. The group is flanked by two other female members of the family and two small servants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254614

Title: Terracotta statuette of an actor Period: Late Classical Date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) Classification: Terracottas Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913 Object Number: 13.225.25 Fourteen of these figures are said to have been found together in a burial in Attica. They are among the earliest known statuettes of actors and are superbly executed and preserved. Originally they were brightly painted. They document the beginning of standardized characters and masks, indicating the popularity not of a specific figure but of types—the old man, the slave, the courtesan, etc.—that appeared repeatedly in different plays. By the mid-fourth century B.C., Attic examples or local copies were known throughout the Greek world, from Southern Russia to Spain. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248775

Title: Terracotta statuette of an actor Period: Late Classical Date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) Classification: Terracottas Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913 Object Number: 13.225.25 Fourteen of these figures are said to have been found together in a burial in Attica. They are among the earliest known statuettes of actors and are superbly executed and preserved. Originally they were brightly painted. They document the beginning of standardized characters and masks, indicating the popularity not of a specific figure but of types—the old man, the slave, the courtesan, etc.—that appeared repeatedly in different plays. By the mid-fourth century B.C., Attic examples or local copies were known throughout the Greek world, from Southern Russia to Spain. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248775

Title: Small marble statue of an athlete Period: Hellenistic Date: 3rd or 2nd century BCE Culture: Greek Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917 Object Number: 17.230.3 Among the greatest honors accorded ancient Greek athletes were statues dedicated to the gods to commemorate victories in the games held at the Panhellenic sanctuaries and local festivals throughout the Greek world. These statues, typically made of bronze or marble, could be set up at the sanctuary where the games occurred or in a public place in the victor’s hometown. Not all Panhellenic victors received statues, and some did only years after winning. Statues could commemorate a single victory or many victories, which were customarily recorded on the statue’s base. In Hellenistic times, athletic programs at the Panhellenic festivals were expanded to their greatest extent, and as a result, there was a much wider variety of athletic statues than in the preceding Classical period. This athlete is represented fastening a headband with a chinstrap, which would have afforded some protection for his cauliflower ears. It also may have served as an emblem of distinction, one that would stay securely in place during competition. He was clearly a competitor inone of the combat sports—boxing, wrestling, or the pankration, an athletic contest that combined boxing, wrestling, and kicking. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250541

Title: Small marble statue of an athlete Period: Hellenistic Date: 3rd or 2nd century BCE Culture: Greek Medium: Marble Dimensions: H. 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917 Object Number: 17.230.3 Among the greatest honors accorded ancient Greek athletes were statues dedicated to the gods to commemorate victories in the games held at the Panhellenic sanctuaries and local festivals throughout the Greek world. These statues, typically made of bronze or marble, could be set up at the sanctuary where the games occurred or in a public place in the victor’s hometown. Not all Panhellenic victors received statues, and some did only years after winning. Statues could commemorate a single victory or many victories, which were customarily recorded on the statue’s base. In Hellenistic times, athletic programs at the Panhellenic festivals were expanded to their greatest extent, and as a result, there was a much wider variety of athletic statues than in the preceding Classical period. This athlete is represented fastening a headband with a chinstrap, which would have afforded some protection for his cauliflower ears. It also may have served as an emblem of distinction, one that would stay securely in place during competition. He was clearly a competitor inone of the combat sports—boxing, wrestling, or the pankration, an athletic contest that combined boxing, wrestling, and kicking. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250541