Currently not on view
Statue of a woman (possibly a priestess),
ca. 98–117 CE
Roman
Trajanic
y1980-34
Information
Title
Statue of a woman (possibly a priestess)
Dates
ca. 98–117 CE
Medium
Marble (body of Pentelic, head of island marble, probably Parian)
Dimensions
189.0 x 55.8 x 30.5 cm (74 7/16 x 21 15/16 x 12 in.)
h. with plinth 189.0 cm, h. of plinth 10.0 cm, w. of plinth 55.8 cm, d. of plinth 30.5 cm, w. of head 21.0 cm, d. of head 21.9 cm
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1980-34
Period
Materials
Subject
Ex. Coll. H-A Jacques, Switzerland; purchased by the Museum from Robin Symes in 1980.
- Jiří Frel and Sandra Knudsen Morgan, Roman portraits in the Getty Museum, (Tulsa, OK: Philbrook Art Center, 1981). , cat. nos. 16, 37, 38, 51, 52, 81, 82 Draped female figures (some cut down to busts); imperial period.
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., cat. no. 109
