ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art
Neo-Attic Relief with Draped Woman
AAT Object Form/FunctionBas-Reliefs (sculpture)
Place CreatedGreece, Europe
CultureRoman
Periodlate Republican-Augustan
Date1st Century BCE
MediumMarble (Denizli 2)
Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art
Dimensions17 5/8 x 26 in. (44.8 x 66 cm)
Object number1986.009.015
Label TextThis fragmentary panel preserves the lower left corner of a relief plaque depicting a woman advancing right with her weight on her left leg. She carries an oinochoe in her lowered right hand and looks down towards her raised left hand, which perhaps holds a flower bud. She wears a long Ionic chiton, its fine texture indicated by crinkly lines on the sleeves, beneath a peplos with gathered pleats at the front and elaborate overfolds at the waist that are held in position with weights at the corners. One edge of her mantle flies free beyond her right shoulder. Her long hair is rolled at the temples and hangs loose down her back with two corkscrewlike locks on her shoulders. The relief exemplifies work produced by so-called neo-Attic sculptors in the 1st century BC, who created ‘classicising’ pieces that evoked the subjects and representational styles of Archaic and Classical Greek sculpture to meet growing demand for Greek art in Rome.
Exhibition HistoryOdyssey of an Art Collector: Unity in Diversity, 5000 Years of Art, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11, 1966 - January 8, 1967
The Fragrant Past: Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, April 5 - June 25, 1989
An Enduring Ideal: Classical Art from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, November 1, 1992 - February 15, 1993
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - July 31, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 15, 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesOdyssey of an Art Collector: Unity in Diversity, 5000 Years of Art (New Orleans: Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1966), 143, number 34.
Robert H. Tykot, et al. "Analysis of Classical Marble Sculptures in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta," in ASMOSIA XI: Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone, ed. Daniela Matetic Poljak and Katja Marasovic (Split: University of Split, 2018), 502, figure 2.
ProvenanceEx coll. Elizabeth (1928-2018) and Frederick (1905-1992) Stafford, Paris and New York, by 1966. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Safani Gallery, New York, New York.
Status
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- Greek and Roman Art
4th Century BCE
1st Century BCE
3rd century BCE
5th Century BCE
mid 2nd Century BCE
early 17th Century
late 1st-2nd Century CE
1st Century BCE-1st Century CE
722-655 BCE
1076-944 BCE
