Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Statuette of Artemis of Ephesus

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Statuette of Artemis of Ephesus
Alternate Title: 
Ephesian Artemis
Image View: 
View in the Palazzo Nuovo, amid their collection of Imperial busts
Creator: 
unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location: 
repository: Musei Capitolini (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza del Campidoglio 1; Palazzo Nuovo
GPS: 
+41.893021+12.4825
Date: 
original, 2nd century BCE (other)
Cultural Context: 
Roman (ancient)
Style Period: 
Ancient Greek; Greco-Roman
Work Type 1: 
figurine
Work Type 2: 
sculpture (visual work)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
marble; bronze
Technique: 
carving (processes); casting (process)
Subjects: 
deities; Artemis (Greek deity)
Description: 
From the Greek point of view the Ephesian Artemis is a distinctive form of their goddess Artemis. At Ephesus, a goddess whom the Greeks associated with Artemis was venerated in an archaic, certainly pre-Hellenic cult image that was carved of wood and kept decorated with jewelry (the form is called a xoanon). The "eggs" or "breasts" of the Lady of Ephesus, it now appears, must be the iconographic descendants of the amber gourd-shaped drops, elliptical in cross-section and drilled for hanging, that were rediscovered in the excavations of 1987-1988. Most similar to Near-Eastern and Egyptian deities, and least similar to Greek ones, her body and legs are enclosed within a tapering pillar-like term, from which her feet protrude. This statuette is very similar to a large version, also in the museum, Inv. MC1182. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A3-R-CM-AEF-A04
Rights: 
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