1st c. Roman Seated Muse Figure

Sculpture

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Hammond Castle Museum

Name/Title

1st c. Roman Seated Muse Figure

Entry/Object ID

HM-400

Tags

DEACCESSIONED, Pacifici purchase

Description

1st c. Roman Seated Muse Figure Marble seated robed female body of a muse, formerly identified as Ceres or Cybele head missing Cohon, 2025 - "It is not an original Roman creation but a Roman copy or adaptation of a seated Muse who was part of a sculptural group of nine Muses from the Hellenistic Period (roughly the late fourth to first century B.C.), Greece." 1927-1928 Pacifici puchase Deaccessioned and sold 1993

Collection

Sculpture

Acquisition

Accession

400

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

General Notes

Note Type

HM400 marble seated Muse female torso (Cybele) info

Note Type

1993-12-14 Sotheby's Catalog, #50 - HM400 marble seated Muse female torso

Note Type

1970 Guide Book to Tower 007

Note Type

1965 ca Tower Gallery Inventory, copy 1 p(1)

Note Type

1970ca Handwritten Inventory p(25) - 3rd & 2nd Floor Gallery

Note Type

1928-11-24 from Armando Pacifici (windows, capitals, all purchases to date) p (1-2)

Note Type

Cohon 2025 - HM 400, HM 416 info

Note Type

1928-02-04 from Pacifici (Stein charges, portals, Roman window, cow head) p(1-4)