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Source Description
This statue depicts a draped female figure. She holds a snake in her right hand and wears a mantle brunched under her left elbow. There is a dowel hole at the left elbow for the attachment of a forearm. The head is gone, the snake is broken, the left forearm is gone and the piece is broken below the knees.An old number "66" is painted over with a number "39."
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Document identity
localId
8140
label
Torso of Hygeia, Goddess of Health
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
8140
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Torso of Hygeia, Goddess of Health
description
This statue depicts a draped female figure. She holds a snake in her right hand and wears a mantle brunched under her left elbow. There is a dowel hole at the left elbow for the attachment of a forearm. The head is gone, the snake is broken, the left forearm is gone and the piece is broken below the knees.An old number "66" is painted over with a number "39."
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, by 1894 [mode of acquisition unknown] [marble no. 49]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st century BCE-3rd century CE (Late Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
statues
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 23 7/16 in. (59.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Roman
inscriptions
[Number] Painted over: 66; [Number] Painted on top of the 66: 39
med
marble
creator_ids
6191
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
57a866523164adea