Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a German Private Collection
A Roman Marble Figure of Nemesis, Eastern Mediterranean, circa 2nd century A.D.
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Property from a German Private Collection
A Roman Marble Figure of Nemesis
Eastern Mediterranean, circa 2nd century A.D.
standing with the weight on her left leg, wearing sandals, long chiton girdled at the waist, and mantle falling down her back, her head turned slightly to the right and with centrally parted hair bound in a fillet, a seated griffin at her feet, a pair of scales carved in shallow relief in front of the plinth.
Total height 99.5 cm.; height from plinth 92 cm.
Alexandre Ghurékian, Objets d’art. Antiquités classiques, 1, rue de la Collégiale, Brussels
Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, Vente aux enchères publiques des collections de feu l’antiquaire Ghurékian, March 19th-20th, 1923, no. 52 (bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idviewer/59461/9)
acquired at Tefaf Maastricht
The present figure is based on the Aphrodite Colonna-Ermitage type, which was frequently used in Roman Asia Minor for figures of Nemesis. See, for example, statues from Perge (LIMC, vol. 6, p. 749, no. 175a, pl. 441: https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1201267), Kremna (LIMC, vol. 6, p. 749, no. 175c, pl. 441: https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1110518), and Sagalassos (LIMCSuppl., p. 382f., no. add.7, pl. 186: https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1115314).