Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Kneeling Persian

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Kneeling Persian
Alternate Title: 
Kneeling Barbarian
Image View: 
Overall view from left side
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.museoarcheologiconapoli.it/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A3-R-NAM-KB-A03
Rights: 
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