Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Statuette of Artemis of Ephesus
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Statuette of Artemis of Ephesus
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Alternate Title:
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Ephesian Artemis
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Image View:
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View in the Palazzo Nuovo, amid their collection of Imperial busts
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Creator:
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unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Capitolini (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza del Campidoglio 1; Palazzo Nuovo
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GPS:
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+41.893021+12.4825
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Date:
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original, 2nd century BCE (other)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Ancient Greek; Greco-Roman
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Work Type 1:
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figurine
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Work Type 2:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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marble; bronze
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Technique:
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carving (processes); casting (process)
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Subjects:
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deities; Artemis (Greek deity)
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Description:
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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)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-CM-AEF-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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