The Belvedere Torso
Classical Antiquites - Plaster casts
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Date | early 20th century (plaster cast), 410-400 BC (original) |
Object type | plaster cast |
Medium, technique | plaster |
Dimensions | 59 x 29 x 6 cm |
Inventory number | Ag.316 |
Collection | Classical Antiquites - Plaster casts |
On view | Star Fortress (Komárom), Athenian men and women from the fourth century BC, Corridor A |
The upper part of the stele is engraved with a fragmentary inscription that commemorates a woman named Mynno. She sits on a backless chair, wearing a thin dress (chiton) and a mantle (himation). Her lowered right hand holds a spindle, in her raised left hand there is a ball of yarn or a distaff, which was probably once painted. A yarn basket (calathus) is placed beside her chair; thus, the sculptor showed the young woman while spinning. This was a customary way of depicting married women, since families usually produced their clothes themselves. The stele is crowned with a tympanon and palmette-shaped acroteria.
Hekler, Antal, Az antik gipszgyűjtemény I-II., Budapest, 1919-1920, 1923, no. no. 251.
This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.