Bronze of Ceres, Rome, 200 BC-307 AD
)
Links to other views:⇒ Larger Viewif scripting is off, click the ⇒ instead. Links to others of type Statuette-womanBronze female dancer, Rome, 200-27 BCBronze goddess Neith, Ptolemaic Period Bronze of a queen nursing, Dyn. 25 Bronze of Goddess Nebethetepet, Dyn. 12 Bronze of Mut, Ptolemaic Period Bronze Venus, Alexandria, 50 BC-50 AD Etruscan young woman, 570-550 BC Gilded statue of a queen, Early Dynastic Hathor as a woman, cow headed, N.K. Protodynastic female statuette, Dyn. 0 Queen Aqaluqa as Isis nursing, Dyn. 25 Queen as Goddess Mut, Dyn.18 Queen as Isis nursing, Dyn. 12 Queen as Isis nursing, Dyn. 25 Queen as Isis-Hathor nursing, Dyn. 21 Queen Hatshepsut as Goddess Mut, Dyn. 18 Queen Hatshepsut as Hathor, Dyn. 18 Queen Isis as Isis nursing Thutmose III Queen Isitnefret as Isis nursing, Dyn. 19 Queen Karama as Goddess Neith, Dyn. 22 Terracotta young woman, Greece, 450 BC Victory and Athena, terracotta, Greece Woman and girl, Tanagra, 340-300 BC Woman with elaborate headdress, Crete |
This bronze statuette represents Ceres, the Roman goddess of the wheat harvest, and more generally, of agriculture. Identified with the Greek goddess Demeter, she is customarily shown with a sheaf of wheat and a sickle. Here, she is portrayed with the hair and clothing of a roman lady and holds a horn of plenty. Rome, 200 BC-307 AD. “. . . Apollo was adopted by Romans without changing his name. But Demeter became Ceres. The anthropomorphism of Greek religion was initially foreign to the Latin mind. However, as the first centuries of the Republic unfolded, representing gods under a human form became common, and the temples dedicated to these gods multiplied” (Brion 1974:240). Bibliography (for this item)Andreae, Bernard1973 L’art de l’ancienne Rome. Editions d’art Lucien Mazenod, Paris, France. Brion, Marcel 1974 La Grandeur de Rome (Marcel Brion editor; translation of the 1969 edition by Thames & Hudson). Edito-Service, Geneva, Swizerland. (240) Clayton, Peter 1986 Treasures of Ancient Rome. Gallery Books, New York, NY. |
){kind=link}