Object photograph·C04214·1927–1931

Marble Sculpture (So.497)

Marble statue of a draped standing figure with one arm raised to the head, on a rectangular base — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04214. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A standing draped figure carved in marble, shown in three-quarter view with one arm bent up toward the head and the face worn away. Heavy folds of cloth fall in vertical ridges to the feet, which rise from a thick rectangular block base. The statue is photographed against a plain grey backdrop.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Marble Sculpture, So.497.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Marble Sculpture. So.497

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