Roman Tyche of Antioch, c.1st century AD
Marble
Height: 36cm
11523 EL
The young woman is seated on a softly modelled outcrop of stone, her right knee crossed over her left, one elbow is bent and resting on her thigh with the...
The young woman is seated on a softly modelled outcrop of
stone, her right knee crossed over her left, one elbow is bent
and resting on her thigh with the forearm reaching vertically,
her weight supported on her left arm which leans back to
rest on the surface of the rock. She wears a chiton beneath
the heavily draped himation that surrounds her whole body,
enveloping her curves which have been skillfully rendered
by the sculptor. A fragment, with the arms and head missing.
Tyche was the personification of a city, and was venerated as
the protectress of that city.
Provenance
Lawrence Tisch (1923–2003), New York, USA; acquired
1950s or earlier
Karsten Schubert (1961–2019), London, UK; acquired 1987
Richard Salmon, London, UK; acquired 1993
Literature
Compare Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of ca.331-200 B.C. (Bristol, 1990), pl.116a-b.Also see an example in the Szépmüvészéti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Inv.no. 4742, Arachne ID: 1063455
Publications
Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, Switzerland, Auktion 63, 29th June 1983, lot 98M. Meyer, Die Personifikation der Stadt Antiocheia (2006), pl.7
