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Captive against pillar, front view. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Captive against Pillar
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 215
- Date
- Late 2nd or early 3rd C. AD, Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4097
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4097
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx59.003
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Other Architectural Piece, Human Figure
- Site
- Sardis?
- Findspot
- Findspot unknown.
- Description
- A captive barbarian is tied with his back against a pillar. His arms are bent at the elbows and bound behind his back. He wears a tunic girt below his chest with a broad belt. His cloak, fastened at the r. shoulder, falls in an arc across the front of his chest and passes over the shoulders to fall down the back. Traces remain of the long flap from a “Phrygian” cap which identifies him as a Parthian. Workmanship is rough; straight channels indicate drapery folds.
- Condition
White local marble with gray veins.
Shoulders to above knees preserved. Iron dowel on top of pillar.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.235; W. 0.185; D. 0.195
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Similarly dressed captives can be seen on numerous Imperial monuments from the time of Augustus onwards. For a captive tied to an architectural pillar, see Brilliant, Severus Arch, pl. 58b.
- Author
- NHR