statue
- Museum number
- 1859,1226.4
- Title
- Series: The Didyma Sculptures
- Description
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Seated, over life-sized marble statue of a man.
Heavy rounded forms. The hair fell in narrow knobbed tresses down the back. The left hand rested on the knee, the right lay beside the thigh. The feet are separated. The legs project, and the drapery between is slightly concave.
The chiton on its upper part shows strips of crinkled lines alternating with plain strips; the lower part is plain and strongly splayed. There are six folds in the centre, splaying at the bottom, where the edge is waved. There is a grooved border along the bottom and the sleeves, which also show oblique creases. The mantle is shorter, with bolder folds; the breast-edge is wider. The folds over the knee are flat with straight edges. The transverse ribbing of the mantle is broader. The left arm is outside the mantle.
All four legs of the chair show the outline of a double lotos pattern. The back rail reached the nape of the neck.
On the back of the top rail is an inscription in characters of a late period.
- Production date
- 570BC-560BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.53 metres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Sculpture
Smith, no. 12; Newton, no. 4, p. 531, fig. i, and p. 787, pl. 97, no. 73, and in Monatsb. Berl. Akad., 1859, p. 662; Hirschfeld, Gr. Inscr. in the Brit. Mus., no. 934 and in Philologus (N.F. IV), L, p. 430; Kirchhoff, Studien, 4th ed., p. 20.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The head, chest and shoulders, right hand and thumb of left, all four corners and both finials of the arms of the throne are missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1859,1226.4