The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Bronze statuette of Apollo

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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Bronze statuette of Apollo

Period:: Classical
Date:: ca. 500 B.C.
Culture:: Greek
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 4 3/8 x 5/8 x 2 in. (11.1 x 1.6 x 5.1 cm)
Classification:: Bronzes
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number:: 07.286.91

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 156

Description

Apollo was a youthful god who presided over a wide variety of activities, from the initiation of boys into manhood to the utterance of oracles. His attributes were the bow and the lyre. This small figure, which would have been dedicated at the god's sanctuary, has a bow in the left hand and probably poured a libation from a phiale in the right hand.
References

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1908. "New Accessions in the Classical Department: V. Miscellaneous Bronzes." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 3(5): no. 1, pp. 89-90, fig. 2.
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