Statuette (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-204
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1848 (original number), 8-5204 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), and 920 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of archaic statuette of Zeus. An eagle perches on the god’s left hand; his right holds a thunderbolt. Olympia. Compare Olympia IV Plate 7 and Friederichs-Wolters 354. The same type of figure occurs at Dodona and elsewhere and was followed by Hagelaidas in his celebrated statue of Zeus Ithomatas.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Person depicted:
Zeus (Greek deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Statuettes (free-standing sculpture)
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-204, described as Cast of archaic statuette of Zeus. An eagle perches on the god’s left hand; his right holds a thunderbolt. Olympia. Compare Olympia IV Plate 7 and Friederichs-Wolters 354. The same type of figure occurs at Dodona and elsewhere and was followed by Hagelaidas in his celebrated statue of Zeus Ithomatas.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-204, described as Cast of archaic statuette of Zeus. An eagle perches on the god’s left hand; his right holds a thunderbolt. Olympia. Compare Olympia IV Plate 7 and Friederichs-Wolters 354. The same type of figure occurs at Dodona and elsewhere and was followed by Hagelaidas in his celebrated statue of Zeus Ithomatas.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-204, described as Cast of archaic statuette of Zeus. An eagle perches on the god’s left hand; his right holds a thunderbolt. Olympia. Compare Olympia IV Plate 7 and Friederichs-Wolters 354. The same type of figure occurs at Dodona and elsewhere and was followed by Hagelaidas in his celebrated statue of Zeus Ithomatas.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-204, described as Cast of archaic statuette of Zeus. An eagle perches on the god’s left hand; his right holds a thunderbolt. Olympia. Compare Olympia IV Plate 7 and Friederichs-Wolters 354. The same type of figure occurs at Dodona and elsewhere and was followed by Hagelaidas in his celebrated statue of Zeus Ithomatas.

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