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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Kneeling Persian
Alternate Title:
Kneeling Barbarian
Image View:
Overall three-quarter view from front right
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 6115
Location Note:
Piazza Museo, 19; Farnese Collection
GPS:
40.853378 14.250486
Date:
early 1st century CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
colored marble (pavonazzetto and nero antico)
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Measurements:
164 cm (height)
Subjects:
decorative arts; human figure; Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.; Roman Empire; Persians; Phrygians
Description:
The statue represents a bearded Persian in oriental costume, his body made of pavonazzetto (a colored type of rock known as breccia which came from Phrygia [modern Turkey]), his face and hands in nero antico (a black and white marble), wearing a Phrygian cap. He is reaching up and supporting a plinth. There are three identical statues, inv. 6115 and 6117 in Naples and another in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek of Copenhagen (inv. 1177); they may have been parts of the same monument. Two dates have been proposed, either during the campaigns of Trajan, ca. 113-117 CE or to celebrate the victory over the Parthians in 20 BCE under Augustus. Part of the Farnese Collection; found in the Vigna del Bufalo, near Porta Pinciana (Rome). (Source: Naples National Archaeological Museum [website]; https://www.museoarc heologiconapoli.it/e n/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-NAM-KB-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Kneeling Persian