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Portrait statue of a woman, known as the "Small Herculaneum Woman".
Date last quarter of the 1st century BCE (C. Vorster), in the style of the 4th century BCE
Medium marble
Dimensions height: 180 cm (70.8 in); width: 59 cm (23.2 in); depth: 46 cm (18.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,180U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,59U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,46U174728
institution QS:P195,Q653002
Current location
Skulpturensammlung, Semperbau am Zwinger
Accession number
Hm 327
Place of discovery Discovered during the tunneling excavations in the theater of Herculaneum in 1710–1711.
Object history Purchased for Dresden from Eugene of Savoy in 1736.
References
  • P. Herrmann, Verzeichnis der antiken Original-Bildwerke (Dresden 1915), p. 72, no. 327.
  • J. Trimble, "Replicating the body politic: The Herculaneum Women statue types in Early Imperial Italy", Journal of Roman Archaeology 13 (2000), pp. 41–68.
  • J. Daehner (ed.), The Herculaneum Women: History, Context, Identities (Los Angeles 2007).
  • K. Knoll and C. Vorster (eds.), Katalog der antiken Bildwerke III: Die Porträts (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Skulpturensammlung. Munich 2013), pp. 176–182, no. 34 (C. Vorster).
  • SK Dresden online collection.
  • iDAI Arachne 1065513.
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