Currently not on view
Figure of Boy: Personification of Autumn,
late 2nd century–3rd century CE
Roman
y1958-32
Information
Title
Figure of Boy: Personification of Autumn
Dates
late 2nd century–3rd century CE
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
9.6 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm (3 3/4 x 1 7/16 x 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1958-32
Period
Materials
Subject
Ex coll: Stroganoff; purchased from Adolf Loewi in 1958.
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George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann, The season sarcophagus in Dumbarton Oaks, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951).
, Vol. 1: p. 136 and 215ff - Frances Follin Jones, "Recent acquisitions of ancient art", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 17, no. 2 (1958): p. 46-54., fig. 3, p. 53 (illus.)
- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 41
- Hugo Meyer, "A cycle of one? On the identity of a puzzling figure on the Princeton dionysiac sarcophagus", Rivista di archeologia 17 (1993)., fig. 3
