Unlikely to really represent Penelope; more likely to be a funerary monument. Roman copy of Greek original. The copyist has exchanged the stool of the original for a rock and has given the figure the face of an androgynous youth. Heavily restored
Number:
113
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Rome, Vatican, Galleria delle Statue, 261
Size:
1.15m
Accession:
Purchased 1884, from Malpieri, Rome
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 134 (n.1), pl. 47.3
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), fig.63
Amelung: Catalogue of the Vatican Museum II (1908), 439
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 27, no.107
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 891, no.73
Richter: Ancient Italy, 48
Date:
First century CE. Original: mid C5 BCE
Provenance:
Unknown
