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Date : approx. between the Ist century and 2
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Bequest of Reginald E. Gillmor (1960)
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Vitrine : V02
Area related
Greece
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Adaptation of a Greek statue of about 425 B.C. attributed to Alkamenes.
Hekate, the goddess of the moon and of sorcery, presided over crossroads. She was first represented as three women standing against a pillar in a statue erected about 425 B.C. on the bastion of Athena Nike at the entrance to the Akropolis in Athens. It was one of the earliest statues deliberately made to imitate the stiff linear way of depicting clothes that had marked works of the sixth century.
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