Statue
97-123-24
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 97-123-24 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Italy |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Marble (Stone) |
| Iconography | Female Head | Cybele | Caryatid? |
| Description | Marble female head. Frontal, locks falling down sides of the neck. Top flat and only roughly worked. Back rough. Broken off at base of neck. Nose and chin abraded; otherwise rather worn. Edith Hall Dohan, on original catalogue card, suggested Cybele. Possibly part of a caryatid(?). Dull, grayish white marble. Green stain, as from bronze, on back surface. 11116 in ink on top surface. |
| Height | 16.5 cm |
| Width | 12 cm |
| Depth | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-123-24 - Old Museum Number | 11116 - ANSP Number |
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