On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Statuette of Herakles,
late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
Etruscan
Etrusco-Hellenistic Period, ca. 323–100 BCE
y1973-7
Information
Title
Statuette of Herakles
Dates
late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
16.5 x 12.6 x 2.7 cm (6 1/2 x 4 15/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Friends of The Art Museum in honor of Frances Follin Jones's thirtieth year at The Art Museum
Object Number
y1973-7
Place Made
Europe, Italy, Etruria (central Italy)
Culture
Materials
Provenance unknown; museum purchase in 1973
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1974", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 33, no. 1 (1974): p. 37-47., p. 45
- 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.)
- John Boardman, et. al., Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), (Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-2009)., Vol. 5: p. 297, no. 630 s.v. Hermaphroditos (A. Ajootian)
- Jaimee Pugliese Uhlenbrook and Karl Galinsky, Herakles: passage of the hero through 1000 years of classical art, (New Rochelle, NY: Artistide D. Caratzas, 1986)., pl. 56
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 79 (illus.)
- Charles Truman, ed., Sotheby’s concise encyclopedia of silver, (London: Conran Octopus, 1993). , p. 27 (illus.)
