Terracotta statuette of a Nike flying

Period:: Hellenistic

Date:: early 3rd century B.C.

Culture:: Greek, Asia Minor, Myrina

Medium:: Terracotta

Dimensions:: H.: 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)

Classification:: Terracottas

Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1906

Accession Number:: 06.1077

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 163

Partly draped, arms extended.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 163, fig. 103, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 201, fig. 139, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 201, fig. 139, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 128, 268, pl. 108a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki: Katalog vystavki. no. 73, Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik.

Karoglou, Kyriaki. 2016. "The Collection of Greek Terracotta Figurines at The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 14: n. 33 [p. 8].

Timelines
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.

Department

Greek and Roman Art (17,341)

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