Carlotta - the museum database

NM Sk 0314 :: figurine

Object description: Naked, male figure; he stands frontally, with the left foot slightly in front of the other and the arms close to his body; the head is rounded with a protruding chin, almond shaped eyes and smiling mouth; the long hair falls down on the back, the strands of hair indicated by incised lines; incised lines on the body indicate the collar-bones, the muscles of the chest, the rounding of the belly and the knees.

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Inventory number

NM Sk 0314

Serie nummer

2116

Object

figurine

Material

Bronze; Metal

Material, Swedish

Brons

Acquisition

Gift from queen dowager Josephine in 1866.

Description

Naked, male figure; he stands frontally, with the left foot slightly in front of the other and the arms close to his body; the head is rounded with a protruding chin, almond shaped eyes and smiling mouth; the long hair falls down on the back, the strands of hair indicated by incised lines; incised lines on the body indicate the collar-bones, the muscles of the chest, the rounding of the belly and the knees.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

c. 600 BC

Period

Archaic

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current