Currently not on view
Warrior with dedicatory inscription,
ca. 550–525 BCE
Greek, Messenia or Arcadia
y1947-325
Information
Title
Warrior with dedicatory inscription
Dates
ca. 550–525 BCE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
11.4 x 5.1 x 4.3 cm (4 1/2 x 2 x 1 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. T. Leslie Shear Sr.
Object Number
y1947-325
Place Made
Arcadia ?
Inscription
Inscribed on back in Messenian alphabet with a dedication by Pythodoros to the River Pamisos. [See accession card for reproduction of inscription].
Culture
Materials
Subject
Given to the Museum by Mrs. T. Leslie Shear Sr. in 1947
- "Recent accessions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 7, no. 1 (1948): p. 7., p. 7
- Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, Archaic Greek art against its historical background: a survey, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949). , p. 90
- Frances Follin Jones, "The Princeton Art Museum: antiquities received in recent years", Archaeology 7, no. 4 (Dec., 1954): p. 237-243., p. 238
- F. F. Jones and R. Goldberg, Ancient art in the Art Museum: Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960)., pp. 30, 31 (illus.)
- Lilian Hamilton Jeffery, Local scripts of archaic Greece: a study of the origin of the Greek alphabet and its development from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C., (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1961). , cat. no. 1 p. 202; p. 206
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David Gordon Milton and Suzannah F. Doeringer, Master bronzes from the classical world, (Mainz on Rhine, Germany: Printed by P. von Zabern, 1967).
, p. 239; cat. no. 232 - Emeline Hill Richardson and Gilbert Kenneth Sams, Small sculptures in bronze from the classical world, (Chapel Hill, NC: William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, 1976)., cat. no. 55 (Illus.)
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 68 (illus.)
- Nino Luraghi; Susan E Alcock, Helots and their masters in Laconia and Messenia: histories, ideologies, structures, (Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Cambridge, MA: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003)., Cover illus.
