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Old nurse holding a baby Greek Early Hellenistic Period about 325–300 B.C. Medium/Technique: Terracotta Dimensions Overall: 12.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm (4 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.) Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution Accession Number: 01.7842 Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Description: Statuette of an old nurse holding a baby. White on flesh and cap of nurse, as well as on base; red on hair of nurse and baby; pale blue on chiton. Label text: The affectionate nurse was a character in the "New Comedy" of Menander, and his plays probably inspired figures like this. Provenance: By 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens: from Tanagra); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901 Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151797/old-nurse-holding-a-baby

Old nurse holding a baby Greek Early Hellenistic Period about 325–300 B.C. Medium/Technique: Terracotta Dimensions Overall: 12.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm (4 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.) Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution Accession Number: 01.7842 Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Description: Statuette of an old nurse holding a baby. White on flesh and cap of nurse, as well as on base; red on hair of nurse and baby; pale blue on chiton. Label text: The affectionate nurse was a character in the "New Comedy" of Menander, and his plays probably inspired figures like this. Provenance: By 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens: from Tanagra); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901 Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151797/old-nurse-holding-a-baby

Figurine of a seated girl with bag (phormiskos) of knucklebones Greek Hellenistic Period 300–250 B.C. Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Tanagra Medium/Technique: Terracotta, Painted Dimensions Overall: 14 x 7.2 x 6.5 cm (5 1/2 x 2 13/16 x 2 9/16 in.) Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution Accession Number: 01.7841 Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Description: Little girl seated on a cubic block, holding a small bag in her right hand. The girl wears a short-sleeved chiton. Her long hair is curled at the sides and is braided on top leading to a knot at the crown of her head. A large, almost square vent hole takes up most of the back side of the block. Red-brown color is preserved on hair and bag, brown on eyes, red on lips, pink preserved on shoulders of chiton; traces of pink on chiton; white base layer well preserved over most of composition; gray-black on seat. The front of the plinth is broken off. The figure was fastened to a flat base plate before firing. Almost certain that the bag she carries in her right hand contains knucklebones. Children are often depicted clutching a sack filled with their knucklebones. Her hairstyle is known as the lampadion, or "little torch," because the piles resemble the flames of a torch. Provenance: By 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Paris.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901 Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151796/figurine-of-a-seated-girl-with-bag-phormiskos-of-knucklebo

Figurine of a seated girl with bag (phormiskos) of knucklebones Greek Hellenistic Period 300–250 B.C. Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Tanagra Medium/Technique: Terracotta, Painted Dimensions Overall: 14 x 7.2 x 6.5 cm (5 1/2 x 2 13/16 x 2 9/16 in.) Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution Accession Number: 01.7841 Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Description: Little girl seated on a cubic block, holding a small bag in her right hand. The girl wears a short-sleeved chiton. Her long hair is curled at the sides and is braided on top leading to a knot at the crown of her head. A large, almost square vent hole takes up most of the back side of the block. Red-brown color is preserved on hair and bag, brown on eyes, red on lips, pink preserved on shoulders of chiton; traces of pink on chiton; white base layer well preserved over most of composition; gray-black on seat. The front of the plinth is broken off. The figure was fastened to a flat base plate before firing. Almost certain that the bag she carries in her right hand contains knucklebones. Children are often depicted clutching a sack filled with their knucklebones. Her hairstyle is known as the lampadion, or "little torch," because the piles resemble the flames of a torch. Provenance: By 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Paris.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901 Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151796/figurine-of-a-seated-girl-with-bag-phormiskos-of-knucklebo

DEACESSIONED October 12, 2023 A personification or idealized Greek king Greek or Roman Late Hellenistic or Imperial Period 1st century B.C.–2nd century A.D . Medium/Technique: Bronze Dimensions Height: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.); width: 27.5 cm (10 13/16 cm) Credit Line: Anonymous gift Accession Number: 2003.786 Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Description: Head of a god with incised beard and mustache. The face is broad at the cheekbones and tapers to a small, pointed chin. The mouth is small. The hair springs up above the forhead and cascades down beside the face in long, turbulent curls. The left eye and all above and over to the left cheek are missing; the right eye is empty, as if once inlaid. The face is flattened and distorted by ancient damage. Provenance: About 1952/1966, probably illicitly excavated at or near the site of ancient Bubon, near Ibecik, Turkey [see note]. By 1966, Jerome M. Eisenberg, Royal-Athena Galleries, New York; 1967, sold by Eisenberg to an anonymous collector; 2003, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2003); October 12, 2023, deaccessioned by the MFA for transfer to the New York County District Attorney and return to the Republic of Turkey. NOTE: On the looting of Bubon between about 1952 and 1966, see George E. Bean, Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide (London, 1978), 164. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: In 1966, dealer Jerome Eisenberg showed MFA curator Cornelius Vermeule a suite of bronze fragments, including this face and a leg (former MFA accession no. 68.732). The leg is believed to be part of a life-sized statue of an emperor from the imperial sanctuary at Bubon. Although the face does not appear to come from the same statue as the leg, it emerged on the market at the same time. Both Eisenberg and Vermeule, who published several studies of the Bubon material, associated the face with the site. Since Bubon was not scientifically excavated until 1967, the face was almost certainly illicitly removed shortly before appearing on the market. In light of an investigation by the New York District Attorney, in 2023 the Museum reached out to representatives of the Republic of Turkey about the sculptures. The MFA voluntarily transferred the leg and the face to the District Attorney’s office for their return. Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/436506/a-personification-or-idealized-greek-king

DEACESSIONED October 12, 2023 A personification or idealized Greek king Greek or Roman Late Hellenistic or Imperial Period 1st century B.C.–2nd century A.D . Medium/Technique: Bronze Dimensions Height: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.); width: 27.5 cm (10 13/16 cm) Credit Line: Anonymous gift Accession Number: 2003.786 Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Description: Head of a god with incised beard and mustache. The face is broad at the cheekbones and tapers to a small, pointed chin. The mouth is small. The hair springs up above the forhead and cascades down beside the face in long, turbulent curls. The left eye and all above and over to the left cheek are missing; the right eye is empty, as if once inlaid. The face is flattened and distorted by ancient damage. Provenance: About 1952/1966, probably illicitly excavated at or near the site of ancient Bubon, near Ibecik, Turkey [see note]. By 1966, Jerome M. Eisenberg, Royal-Athena Galleries, New York; 1967, sold by Eisenberg to an anonymous collector; 2003, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2003); October 12, 2023, deaccessioned by the MFA for transfer to the New York County District Attorney and return to the Republic of Turkey. NOTE: On the looting of Bubon between about 1952 and 1966, see George E. Bean, Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide (London, 1978), 164. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: In 1966, dealer Jerome Eisenberg showed MFA curator Cornelius Vermeule a suite of bronze fragments, including this face and a leg (former MFA accession no. 68.732). The leg is believed to be part of a life-sized statue of an emperor from the imperial sanctuary at Bubon. Although the face does not appear to come from the same statue as the leg, it emerged on the market at the same time. Both Eisenberg and Vermeule, who published several studies of the Bubon material, associated the face with the site. Since Bubon was not scientifically excavated until 1967, the face was almost certainly illicitly removed shortly before appearing on the market. In light of an investigation by the New York District Attorney, in 2023 the Museum reached out to representatives of the Republic of Turkey about the sculptures. The MFA voluntarily transferred the leg and the face to the District Attorney’s office for their return. Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/436506/a-personification-or-idealized-greek-king

Statuette of Aphrodite leaning on a column Greek or Roman, Eastern Mediterranean Hellenistic or Imperial Period 100 B.C.–100 A.D. Medium/Technique Marble, sparkling, large-crystaled Greek island Dimensions Weight: 4.5 kg (10 lb.) Overall (without modern base): 42.9 x 20.3 x 8.3 cm (16 7/8 x 8 x 3 1/4 in.) Mount (modern black base): 3.2 x 14 x 9.5 cm (1 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.) Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously Accession Number: 1979.304 Collections: Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), no. 025. Description: Nude Aphrodite holding an apple in her right hand, leaning on a column with her left. Her hair is pulled up into a top knot. The remains of a Greek inscription (letters: alpha, upsilon, tau) were found on the reverse side of the base. Left hand is now missing, the head has been broken and restored. Provenance: By date unknown: with Bruce and Ingrid McAlpine, Ancient Art, 60 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, England (said to be from the art market in Paris and possibly from Damascus market); May 1979: anonymous purchase from Bruce and Ingrid McAlpine; anonymous gift to MFA, June 20, 1979 Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/150257/statuette-of-aphrodite-leaning-on-a-column

Statuette of Aphrodite leaning on a column Greek or Roman, Eastern Mediterranean Hellenistic or Imperial Period 100 B.C.–100 A.D. Medium/Technique Marble, sparkling, large-crystaled Greek island Dimensions Weight: 4.5 kg (10 lb.) Overall (without modern base): 42.9 x 20.3 x 8.3 cm (16 7/8 x 8 x 3 1/4 in.) Mount (modern black base): 3.2 x 14 x 9.5 cm (1 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.) Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously Accession Number: 1979.304 Collections: Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome Classifications: Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), no. 025. Description: Nude Aphrodite holding an apple in her right hand, leaning on a column with her left. Her hair is pulled up into a top knot. The remains of a Greek inscription (letters: alpha, upsilon, tau) were found on the reverse side of the base. Left hand is now missing, the head has been broken and restored. Provenance: By date unknown: with Bruce and Ingrid McAlpine, Ancient Art, 60 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, England (said to be from the art market in Paris and possibly from Damascus market); May 1979: anonymous purchase from Bruce and Ingrid McAlpine; anonymous gift to MFA, June 20, 1979 Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/150257/statuette-of-aphrodite-leaning-on-a-column