Currently not on view
Head of a satyr with the hand of hermaphrodite, Roman copy of a Hellenistic type,
2nd century CE
Roman
2000-49
Information
Title
Head of a satyr with the hand of hermaphrodite, Roman copy of a Hellenistic type
Dates
2nd century CE
Medium
Medium-grained white marble, highly crystalline
Dimensions
23.6 x 18.4 x 18.3 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2000-49
Place Excavated
Turkey, Daphne-Harbie
Period
Materials
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
- Donald N. Wilber, Antioch-on-the-Orontes II: the excavations 1933 –1936, ed., Richard Stillwell, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press; The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1938)., p. 148
- John Boardman, et. al., Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), (Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-2009)., Vol. II: p. 425, Apollon/ Apollo 448; Vol. III: p. 346, plate 257, Daphne 20;
- A. Ajootian, “The only happy couple”, in Ann Koloski-Sotrow and Cliare L. Lyons, eds., Naked truths: women, sexuality, and gender in classical art and archaeology, (London; New York: Routledge, 1997)., p. 231, 233.
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., p. 165-167; cat. no. 47
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 2000," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 60 (2001): p. 66-93., p. 85
