Statue of a Sitting Muse, Marble, chiseled, Marble, Total: Height: 82,5 cm; Width: 38,5 cm; Depth: 52 cm (ca. ), Three-dimensional sculptures, sculptures, muses, sitting figure, late Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, On a boulder a girl sits holding in her left hand a stick-like object, perhaps a scroll. It shows clear parallels to muses of a group ascribed to the rhodian sculptor Philiskos. The muse probably belongs to a multi-figure cycle. Muses, sensualists or reminders, are daughters of the father of the gods Zeus and Mnemosyne. The skull cap and part of the right thigh are separately worked and pegged. Drill mussel food points to a sea find.
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Statue, Sitting Muse, Marble, chiseled, Marble, Depth, ca, Three-dimensional sculptures, sculptures, muses, sitting figure, late Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, boulder, girl sits holding, left hand, stick-, object, perhaps, scroll, clear parallels, muses, group ascribed, rhodian sculptor Philiskos, muse, belongs, multi-figure cycle, Muses, sensualists, reminders, daughters, father, gods Zeus, Mnemosyne, skull cap, part, right thigh, separately worked, pegged, Drill mussel food points, sea find
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