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Part of left hand, side view of fingers. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Part of Left Hand
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 82
- Date
- 2nd C. AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S61.027.3
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Human Figure, Colossal Imperial Portrait, Portrait
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- AT
- Trench
- AT
- Locus
- AT Precinct
- Findspot
- Original findspot unknown; perhaps near Zeus head (
Cat. 102 Figs. 223-225). Found in ruins of first Sardis expedition house, July 1961.
- Description
Part of l. hand with stumps of the little, the fourth and the third fingers, bent as if grasping an attribute. Fine veins are indicated by angular rises under the skin. Position of the hand will fit a scepter or lance; cf. of the hand of the colossus of Titus (previously considered Domitian, Keil, Ephesos Fuhrer, 125, fig. 68). We cannot, however, rule out the colossal statue of Faustina (Cat. 251 Fig. 434).
Fragments Cat. 80, Cat. 81, Cat. 82, Cat. 83, Cat. 84, Cat. 85, Cat. 86 and Cat. 87 (Figs. 198-200) may belong to the colossal statue of Antoninus Pius (Cat. 79 Figs. 196-197) and date to ca. A.D. 140.
- Condition
White polished marble.
Surface damage on one side. Back roughly chiseled, perhaps from reuse. Splendid polish on preserved surfaces.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.335; Th. entire fragment 0.16, of little finger 0.095, of fourth finger 0.10.
- Comments
- Possibly mentioned in Sardis I, 67, but the reference may equally well refer to the Hellenistic hand (Cat. 104 Fig. 227).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR