Resumen de A Hellenistic greek marble statue with ancient polychromy reported to be from Knidos
M. B. Abbe, G. E. Borromeo, S. Pike
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
