Statue of a sleeping maenad (NAMA 261)
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The statue of a sleeping maenad with inventory number 261 from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is a Greco-Roman sculpture from Hadrian times.
The statue was found south of the Athens Acropolis on the Makriyannis property in 1880 . It probably belonged to the furnishings of the villa of a wealthy resident of the city. The statue was made from Pentelic marble . It is dated to the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117 to 138) and its execution corresponds to the classifying style as it was practiced at that time in local Attic workshops. The 1.36 meter wide statue is now located in room 32 of the National Museum and, unlike most of the museum's exhibits, is surrounded by a protective display case in the sculpture halls . The inventory number is 261 .
The sleeping naked maenad , which is slightly smaller than life and is only partially covered with a himation from about knee height , is shown lying on a panther skin, which in turn lies on a rocky, irregular surface. Your head rests on your bent right arm. The long hair is gathered with a ribbon and falls to the nape of the neck. In terms of posture and execution, the statue corresponds to a form known as the “ fallen hermaphrodite ”, which is often identified with a statue by the sculptor Polykles known from ancient tradition . It has some defects, parts of the lower legs and the feet are missing. Furthermore, all fingers of the right hand are no longer present and parts of the rock are lost. The left arm is completely missing. Parts of a wrinkled blanket are also no longer there. Other parts, such as larger imperfections in the skin, have been modernized in plaster of paris.
literature
- Lambert Schneider , Christoph Höcker : Greek mainland. Antiquity and Byzantium, Islam and Classicism between the Corinthian Gulf and the northern Greek mountains , DuMont, Cologne 1996, p. 154 (DuMont art travel guide) ISBN 3-7701-2936-9
- Nikolaos Kaltsas : Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002 ISBN 0-89236-686-9 , p. 348
