Statue of Minerva and Altar Base (Chiaramonti Wall XXXIII)
Artist: Unknown
Date: Around the middle of the 1st century A.D.
Classification: Statue
Dimensions: Height 146 cm
Materials: Marble
Adopted By: The Belgium Chapter
Description
MEDIUM PRIORITY PROJECT
The statue depicts Minerva (Athena for the Greeks) standing on her left leg with her right knee flexed. The goddess wears a helmet decorated with two owls, her favorite animal, harnesses with a shield, and wearing a long flowing chiton with a high belt. A cloak (himation), resting on the left shoulder, wraps around the figure on the back and falls on the front with wide drapery. On the chest appears a graceful cover (aegis) adorned with a minute humanized gorgoneion (head). The sculpture is inspired by an original created in Greece in the 2nd Century B.C.
The engraved altar base found in Tivoli bears a modern inscription that copies, with many errors, the cursus honorum (honorifics of public office) of Publius Aelius Coeranus.
TOTAL COST: € 12.602,69 ($ 12,317.87)
Restoration Procedures
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Cleaning with soft brushes and a high-density sponge
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Intervention with laser equipment
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Filling the cracks with mortar made of marble powder and slaked lime
Detail
Adopted By:
The Belgium ChapterInventory N°: 1701, 1702
Artist: Unknown
Date: Around the middle of the 1st century A.D.
Dimensions: Height 146 cm
Materials: Marble
Wishbook year: 2023
Statue of Minerva and Altar Base (Chiaramonti Wall XXXIII)
Details
Adopted by: The Belgium Chapter
Inventory: 1701, 1702
Artist: Unknown
Date: Around the middle of the 1st century A.D.
Classification: Statue
Materials: Marble
Dimensions: Height 146 cm
Museum: Chiaramonti Museum
Department: Greek and Roman Antiquities
Laboratory: Stone Materials
Wishbook year: 2023
Description
MEDIUM PRIORITY PROJECT
The statue depicts Minerva (Athena for the Greeks) standing on her left leg with her right knee flexed. The goddess wears a helmet decorated with two owls, her favorite animal, harnesses with a shield, and wearing a long flowing chiton with a high belt. A cloak (himation), resting on the left shoulder, wraps around the figure on the back and falls on the front with wide drapery. On the chest appears a graceful cover (aegis) adorned with a minute humanized gorgoneion (head). The sculpture is inspired by an original created in Greece in the 2nd Century B.C.
The engraved altar base found in Tivoli bears a modern inscription that copies, with many errors, the cursus honorum (honorifics of public office) of Publius Aelius Coeranus.
TOTAL COST: € 12.602,69 ($ 12,317.87)
Restoration Procedures
-
Cleaning with soft brushes and a high-density sponge
-
Intervention with laser equipment
-
Filling the cracks with mortar made of marble powder and slaked lime
Media
Statue of Athena
Engraved base - inv. 1702
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