SculptureRoman1st-5th century CE

Replica of Mt. Argaeus

1st-5th century CE

Classification

Sculpture

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Leaded bronze

Culture

Roman

Period

Roman Imperial period

Century

1st-5th century CE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

5 cm (1 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Mr. Frank L. Kovacs III, San Mateo, CA, (by 1988), gift; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1988-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Related Artworks

Sculpture

Frame of twenty reliefs and one intaglio

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

White jasperware busts in relief on blue, pink, gray and green backgrounds

18th centuryBritish

Sculpture

Reproduction of a Gold Mycenaean Ornament

Emile Gilliéron or son, 19th-20th century

Electrotype of gold original; repoussé

19th-20th centuryMycenaean

Sculpture

Marabou Stork with a Snake

Antoine Louis Barye, c. 1865

Bronze, with brown with green patina

19th centuryFrench

Sculpture

Cupid Riding a Dolphin Symbolizing Water, after Thorwaldsen

Bonfiglio Zaccagnini, 19th century

Plaster

19th centuryItalian

Sculpture

BONE CARVING

Unknown Artist, c. 400 CE-1900

Bone

Roman

Sculpture

Cinerarium (ash urn)

Unknown Artist, 125-150 CE

Marble

2nd century CERoman

Sculpture

Small Shrine Door with Image of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra (Puxian Pusa) Wearing a Crown and Seated on the Back of an Elephant

Unknown Artist, probably Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century

Wood with traces of polychromy over gesso ground

15th-16th centuryChinese

Sculpture

Spoon Dance

Emily Winthrop Miles, 20th century

Hydrocal

20th centuryAmerican

Sculpture

Bull

Unknown Artist, 6th century BCE

Bronze

6th century BCEGreek

Sculpture

Anthropomorphic female figurine fragments

Unknown Artist, 1900-1600 BCE

Terracotta

18th-17th century BCESyrian

Sculpture

Jacob's Dream and Moses at Burning Bush

Unknown Artist, 19th-20th century

Plaster, toned, painted and gilt

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Sculpture

Seated Amida Nyorai (Amitâbha Buddha)

Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, 15th century?

Wood, multiple woodblock-construction; with lacquer-applied gold leaf, and with significant later re-working of the head, shoulders, arms, back, legs and proper left torso

15th centuryJapanese