purchased by a French private collector who placed the statue in a Parisian garden, where it endu... more purchased by a French private collector who placed the statue in a Parisian garden, where it endured two more decades of outdoor exposure to urban pollutants and acid rain. In December 2007, the piece was shipped to Sotheby’s in New York to be sold at an auction of Greek and Roman antiquities.2 Looking beyond the superficial, curators and conservators from the Yale University Art Gallery discerned the figure’s full potential as a fine example of Roman sculpture and arranged for its final journey to New Haven, Connecticut. There, the story would continue to unfold through scholarly research, scientific analysis, and a lengthy conservation treatment. The six-foot-tall marble statue of a woman is an early Roman portrait, possibly from the eastern Mediterranean, made in the first century b.c. or early first century a.d. The body type, the so-called pudicitia, was commonly used for female portrait statues at that time and was intended to express highly valued characteristics such as mode...
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2016
Despite its ubiquitous presence and obvious cultural significance in Mesopotamian art and archite... more Despite its ubiquitous presence and obvious cultural significance in Mesopotamian art and architecture, the Akkadian language never developed a specific term for the color 'blue.' This article seeks to explain this omission and the Akkadian color system in light of ethno-linguistic data collected in the University of California-based World Color Survey project and the physical evidence for blue pigments and colorants. Special attention is paid to the results of multispectral-imaging analysis conducted on Yale University's Assyrian relief sculpture from Nimrud. This investigation has revealed the use of Egyptian blue pigment in unexpected and hitherto unknown contexts in Assyrian architectural design.
... body of Pa-di-mut, the case was fabricated over a removable mud model. ... 20th century, when... more ... body of Pa-di-mut, the case was fabricated over a removable mud model. ... 20th century, when archaeology was not dissimi-lar to treasure hunting, and conservation treatment in ... unusual iconographic features, such as the complete absence o£ representations of Osiris, God of ...
purchased by a French private collector who placed the statue in a Parisian garden, where it endu... more purchased by a French private collector who placed the statue in a Parisian garden, where it endured two more decades of outdoor exposure to urban pollutants and acid rain. In December 2007, the piece was shipped to Sotheby’s in New York to be sold at an auction of Greek and Roman antiquities.2 Looking beyond the superficial, curators and conservators from the Yale University Art Gallery discerned the figure’s full potential as a fine example of Roman sculpture and arranged for its final journey to New Haven, Connecticut. There, the story would continue to unfold through scholarly research, scientific analysis, and a lengthy conservation treatment. The six-foot-tall marble statue of a woman is an early Roman portrait, possibly from the eastern Mediterranean, made in the first century b.c. or early first century a.d. The body type, the so-called pudicitia, was commonly used for female portrait statues at that time and was intended to express highly valued characteristics such as mode...
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2016
Despite its ubiquitous presence and obvious cultural significance in Mesopotamian art and archite... more Despite its ubiquitous presence and obvious cultural significance in Mesopotamian art and architecture, the Akkadian language never developed a specific term for the color 'blue.' This article seeks to explain this omission and the Akkadian color system in light of ethno-linguistic data collected in the University of California-based World Color Survey project and the physical evidence for blue pigments and colorants. Special attention is paid to the results of multispectral-imaging analysis conducted on Yale University's Assyrian relief sculpture from Nimrud. This investigation has revealed the use of Egyptian blue pigment in unexpected and hitherto unknown contexts in Assyrian architectural design.
... body of Pa-di-mut, the case was fabricated over a removable mud model. ... 20th century, when... more ... body of Pa-di-mut, the case was fabricated over a removable mud model. ... 20th century, when archaeology was not dissimi-lar to treasure hunting, and conservation treatment in ... unusual iconographic features, such as the complete absence o£ representations of Osiris, God of ...
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