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Kneeling Satyr

CultureGreek
Date150-31 B.C.E.
MediumBronze with silver
DimensionsOverall: 13 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (34.29 × 12.07 × 12.07 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number53-82
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 103
Collections
Provenance

Found at Pergamon, Turkey [1];

 

With Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1953;

 

Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] According to Dr. Jacob Hirsch, NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

Margarete Bieber, “A Satyr in the Pergamene Style in Kansas City,” American Journal of Archaeology 67 (1963): 275-78, plates 59-61.

 

Claude Rolley, Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 5, Greek Minor Arts, fascicle 1, The Bronzes (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1967), 13, no. 27, plate 43.  

 

Rolf Michael Schneider, Bunte Barbaren: Orientalenstatuen aus farbigem Marmor in der römischen Repräsentationskunst (Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986), 29n86, no.1.

 

Luigi Beschi, “Il Sileno inginocchiato,” in Bronzi da industria, ed. Liliana Mercando, Emanuela Zanda, and Luigi Beschi (Rome: Edizioni De Luca s.r.l., 1998), 75n5, 78.

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