Currently not on view
Cast of a horse's nose-piece (prometopidion) with a warrior seated before a trophy,
3rd–2nd century BCE
Greek, Ptolemaic
Hellenistic
y1948-52
Information
Title
Cast of a horse's nose-piece (prometopidion) with a warrior seated before a trophy
Dates
3rd–2nd century BCE
Medium
Plaster
Dimensions
16.6 x 8.0 x 4.0 cm (6 9/16 x 3 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
Object Number
y1948-52
Place Excavated
Egypt, Alexandria
Inscription
Inscription scratched into wet plaster, near bottom, upside down: [see accession card for reproduction of inscription].;
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Purchased from Frank J. Tano in 1948.
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Gisela M. A. Richter, "A plaster cast of a horse's nose-piece", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 2 (1959): p. 53-59.
, fig. 1, p. 54 (illus.); fig. 7, p. 58 (illus.) - Antony E. Raubitschek, "A note on the inscription on the plaster cast", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 2 (1959): p. 60., figs. 7-8, p. 60 (illus.)
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Dorothy Burr Thompson, "ΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΣ", Journal of Egyptian archaeology 50 (Dec., 1964): p. 147-163.
, p. 161, note 7 -
Carola Reinsberg, Studien zur hellenistischen Toreutik: die Antiken Gipsabgüsse aus Memphis, (HIldesheim: Gerstenberg, 1980).
, pp. 124-125, 209-210, 344; fig. 103 - Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- Britta Rabe, Tropaia: trope und skyla: Entstehung, Funktion und Bedeutung des griechischen Tropaions, (Rahden: M. Leidorf, 2008)., no. 77; pp. 133, 189-90; pl. 42.3.
- Carlos A Picón, "An ancient plaster cast in New York: a Ptolemaic syncretistic goddess", Approaching the ancient artifact: representation, narrative, and function: a Festschrift in honor of H. Alan Shapiro, (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014)., p. 453-54, fig. 4
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Carlos A. Picón and Seán A. Hemingway, Pergamon and the Hellenistic kingdoms of the ancient world, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).
, p. 214-215; cat. no. 142 (ill.)
