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Reclining Woman

Unidentified Artist1st century BCE - 2nd century CE

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States

This small alabaster figure represents a nude reclining woman, her legs, back, and proper left arm draped in a mantle. Several features of the original figure are not preserved: the hair was added in stucco or bitumen, the eyes were inlaid, and details such as jewelry were rendered in paint. Both feet and the lower part of the proper left arm are lost (the break in the arm was cut and drilled in modern times to attach the statuette to a wooden base).

Details

  • Title: Reclining Woman
  • Creator: Unidentified Artist
  • Creator Lifespan: 1/1
  • Date: 1st century BCE - 2nd century CE
  • Technique: Carved
  • Physical Dimensions: w0.0 x h0.0 x d0.0 cm
  • Period: Parthian period
  • Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund
  • Creation Place: Mesopotamia/Asia/Ancient & Byzantine World
  • Type: Sculpture
  • External Link: Harvard Art Museums
  • Medium: Alabaster

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