SculptureRoman1st century BCE

Small Statuette of a Goddess

c. 200 CE

Description

Hera-Juno wears a himation pulled over her head and a high-girt chiton. She probably held a patera in her right hand and a staff in her raised left hand (both now missing). This statuette may have been part of a portable household shrine.

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Silver

Culture

Roman

Period

Roman period

Century

1st century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1942), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1942.

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