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| Name: |
'Ludovisi
Throne' |
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| Description: |
Rome.
Rome, Museo Nazionale. H. 0.84m. Three sided block. From the left
side: naked flute-girl (heteira) playing the double-flute, one leg
crossed over the other, reclining on a cushion. Her hair is in a bun,
wrapped in a sakkos. Centre panel: Aphrodite rising from the waves,
dressed in a clinging robe, hair bound by a fillet. She is helped
from the water by two women (Fates?) standing on the pebbled shore
who raise her up. On the right side: an old veiled woman reclines
on a cushion before a brazier. She picks something (incense?) from
a box she holds open in her left hand. |
| Date: |
c. 470 B.C. |
| Discussion: |
Possibly
originally from Lokroi, the 'Ludovisi Throne' has a less technically-accomplished
twin, the 'Boston Throne' (in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Together
or separately, they formed an altar or perhaps served as windbreaks
for an external altar on a windy promontory or front. See Robertson
1981: fig. 83, p. 58; Stewart 1990: 149; 306-8 (ills.); compare to
the 'Boston Throne', ills. 309-11. |
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