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NM Ant 2341 :: relief, bowl, plate

Object description: Round plate with relief decoration on both sides. On the front side are frontally depicted, schematically rendered busts of twelve naked figures (the Olympian gods?), radiating from a round section in the center of the plate. Nine of the figures are equipped with staff-like attributes, two have a small figure in between them. Two figures have long beards, two wear turban-like headgear. Also the underside has a round section (the sun?)in the center from which, alternatively, twelve rays and twelve winged figures with human heads and plant-like bodys radiate. In the center section, defined by a raised edge, is the word simboulion incised. The decoration possibly represents a hypothetical connection, based on astrological observations, between the Olympian gods, the twelve months, the twelve zodiac signs, and the orbit of the sun. Fine-grained, crystalline marble.

Data elements
References (3)

Inventory number

NM Ant 2341

Serie nummer

4259

Object

relief; bowl; plate

Object, Swedish

relief

Material

Marble

Acquisition

Purchased at P. Tozzi, New York in 1966.

Description

Round plate with relief decoration on both sides. On the front side are frontally depicted, schematically rendered busts of twelve naked figures (the Olympian gods?), radiating from a round section in the center of the plate. Nine of the figures are equipped with staff-like attributes, two have a small figure in between them. Two figures have long beards, two wear turban-like headgear. Also the underside has a round section (the sun?)in the center from which, alternatively, twelve rays and twelve winged figures with human heads and plant-like bodys radiate. In the center section, defined by a raised edge, is the word simboulion incised. The decoration possibly represents a hypothetical connection, based on astrological observations, between the Olympian gods, the twelve months, the twelve zodiac signs, and the orbit of the sun. Fine-grained, crystalline marble.

Period

Late Roman [?]

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

Study Gallery - Showcase 14:02.

Name - Owner

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Description: Nationalmuseum is a publicly owned cultural institution.Nationalmuseum%20is%20a%20publicly%20owned%20cultural%20institution.
Source - http: www.nationalmuseum.se, collections.smvk.se

Comments

Urval Galleriet.

Parallels

A similar plate from Gabii in Latium, is in the Louvre.

NegNo

4609D.

Cf Publications

-Turchi, N., ‘La religione di Roma antica’, Storia di Roma, vol. XVIII, Bologna, 1939, 134, pl. XXIII.

Publications

A. Andrén, Antiken. Konst från den grekisk-romerska kulturvärlden ur svenska samlingar ... (Nationalmusei utställningskatalog 313), Stockholm 1967, no. 335.

Diameter

20,0 cm

Dimensions

Ø 20.0.

Loan in - Current

in-1977.0002

Condition

Complete. Very slightly chipped.

Original register

GreekRoman

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NM Ant 2341 :: relief, bowl, plate

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