Enthroned Man

Title: Enthroned Man
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: The Didyma Sculptures Sculpture B271
Creator: unknown
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: unknown Ancient Greek (artist)
Description: Seated, over life-sized marble statue of a youth. The features are much worn, the nose being rubbed flat and only traces of eyes and mouth being visible. The face was full and beardless, the lips thick and bowed; the nose was short and the eyes straight and small. The left ear is much injured, but the right is large and powerfully formed. The hair is drawn back in long straight tresses with rows of thin bead-like locks, separated by grooves; four pointed plaits fall on each shoulder. The hands rest on the knees. The scale is over life-size and the proportions are heavy and rounded with massive chest and curving shoulders. The folds of drapery are in very low relief and the projection of the legs in front of the throne is shallow. The legs are not separately indicated underneath the mantle. The drapery consists of a sleeved Ionic chiton and a mantle; the latter passes over the left shoulder, round the back to the right shoulder, then in a loop under the right arm across to the left shoulder, both ends falling at the left side, where they are kept in place by a weight. The edge across the breast is turned over. The drapery is treated in very flat planes; two such are shown on the front of the mantle. The lower chiton is a plain splayed surface; there are no folds between the feet, over which the edge is arched. The throne is a simple rectangular structure, without indication of mortising; it is unfinished on the back, which is high, reaching almost to the crown of the head. No cushion is shown, the line of the drapery being continued on the underside of the arm-rests. Several crosses are scratched on the lap. --The British Museum Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892; Tuchelt, Klaus, Die Archaischen Skulpturen von Didyma, Volume 27, Berlin, Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1970
View: Side
Coverage: Sacred Way, Didyma, Aegean Regean, Turkey (discovery)
Temporal: ca. 600-580 BCE
Subject: Korai Kouroi--Lycippus Sculpture I
Style Period: East Greek
Work Type: sculpture (visual work)
Date: -0600/-0580
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_03083
Item Locator: Box 8, Section 8-10
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: University of Oregon
Local Collection Name: Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: Height: 1.55 m
Material: marble
Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Primary Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Institution: University of Oregon
Id Current Repository: 1859,1226.10