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#159

Female portrait statue from Herculaneum, so-called Large Herculaneum Woman

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The three statues owe their name to their place of discovery, the city of Herculaneum, which was buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD. The 'Great Herculan', dressed in a thin undergarment ( chiton ) and a luxuriant cloak, stands in a calm and relaxed posture, her head tilted forward as if pausing in conversation.

The statue reproduces a statuary type that had been extremely popular since Hellenistic times and whose model probably represented a noble Greek polis bourgeois.

Material & Technique
Marble
Museum
Skulpturensammlung
Dating
Mid-1st cent. CE, after an original, c. 330/20 BCE
Inventory number
Hm 326
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