Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Kneeling Persian
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Alternate Title:
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Kneeling Barbarian
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Image View:
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Overall view from left side
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Creator:
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unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 6115
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Location Note:
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Piazza Museo, 19; Farnese Collection
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GPS:
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+40.853378+14.250486
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Date:
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early 1st century CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Imperial (Roman)
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Work Type 1:
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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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colored marble (pavonazzetto and nero antico)
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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164 cm (height)
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Subjects:
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decorative arts; human figure; Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.; Roman Empire; Persians; Phrygians
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-NAM-KB-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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