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À propos de la statue délienne A 4129
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This sculpture was found in the beginning of the century near the theatre of Delos, in the « house of five statues ». It shows a female figure (dressed in pep los and himation) of an unusual type : but its veiled head, whose missing part of which was recovered in 1948, is a reproduction on a smaller scale of another Delian head, known to have come from Apollo's sanctuary. Like the head, the whole work seems to have been still quite closely inspired by the second classicism.Yet, the interpretation of the garment is surprising, as if the drapery was not completely understood, and the example is instructive for the understanding of classical Greek sculpture in the Cyclades in the II century B.C. The upper part of the left arm, which was added and fixed by means of a dowel, a fairly rare technique, was identified in 1997 in the museum's storerooms. The figure is though to have represented the goddess Tyche.
Title: À propos de la statue délienne A 4129
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This sculpture was found in the beginning of the century near the theatre of Delos, in the « house of five statues ».
It shows a female figure (dressed in pep los and himation) of an unusual type : but its veiled head, whose missing part of which was recovered in 1948, is a reproduction on a smaller scale of another Delian head, known to have come from Apollo's sanctuary.
Like the head, the whole work seems to have been still quite closely inspired by the second classicism.
Yet, the interpretation of the garment is surprising, as if the drapery was not completely understood, and the example is instructive for the understanding of classical Greek sculpture in the Cyclades in the II century B.
C.
The upper part of the left arm, which was added and fixed by means of a dowel, a fairly rare technique, was identified in 1997 in the museum's storerooms.
The figure is though to have represented the goddess Tyche.
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