MARBLE SCULPTURE OF LANTERNARIUS, A SLAVE WHO CARRIES A LANTERN, 52 cm height, inv.no. 990/R

MARBLE SCULPTURE OF LANTERNARIUS, A SLAVE WHO CARRIES A LANTERN, 52 cm height, inv.no. 990/R

Head, both arms up to the elbows and right leg below the knee are missing. Fragmented statue of a young man sitting on a stylized base with his left leg raised, bent at the knee. According to position of the left hand, one can assume that it was resting on his left leg, while the right hand was laid beside his stretched right leg. The young man is dressed in a short chiton, while over his back and left side of his chest a long himation is thrown. In earlier literature defined as dadophora statue, the sculpture of young men can be recognized more as representation of a slave carrying a lantern goods carrying a lantern. Details of the young man’s clothing were not designed with care, but rather schematically, so that the sculpture can be dated to the period from the 3rd to early 4th century.

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