A Hellenistic greek marble statue with ancient polychromy reported to be from Knidos

• M. B. Abbe ^[1] ; G. E. Borromeo ^[2] ; S. Pike ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Georgia

     University of Georgia

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Rhode Island School of Design

     Rhode Island School of Design

     City of Providence, Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Villamette University, Salem (USA)

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• Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 763-770
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  • Archaeological and scientific materials research on a high quality Hellenistic Greek marble statue of a naked male youth in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, has clarified the sculpture's little-known ancient coloration. A yellow iron oxide pigment preserved on the flesh areas of the statue is identifiable as the preliminary painting of a more complex flesh coloration. This ancient polychromy provides an extremely rare example of preserved pigmentation on the skin surfaces of a Greek marble statue, hitherto a controversial subject in such studies. The statue is reported to come from the Greek city of Knidos in Asia Minor. This heretofore-unexamined historic provenance merits serious consideration based on similar excavated finds from the site and the statue is plausibly recontextualized as a youthful athletic victor monument from one of the Urban sanctuaries of Hellenistic Knidos