Bronze statuette of Mercury

He stands with his weight resting on the right leg, with the left foot drawn back.

He stands with his weight resting on the right leg, with the left foot drawn back.

Metadata from the Met website:

Title: Bronze statuette of Mercury

Period: Early Imperial

Date: 1st century CE

Culture: Roman

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: Overall: 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (15.7 x 6.9 x 4.8 cm)

Classification: Bronzes

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906

Object Number: 06.1057

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Associated Passages
63
Type
Image
License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
Date
1st century AD
Culture
Roman
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
6 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (15.7 x 6.9 x 4.8 cm)
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image Credit
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Official Bronze Stater from the Athenian Agora Excavations

A rectangular bronze block with a relief in the center and a single line of Greek lettering.

An official standard bronze weight indicating a stater, or nearly two pounds.

Comments

Bibliography

Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 23, fig. 16.

AgoraPicBk 4 (2004), p. 30, fig. 34.

Camp (1986), p. 127.

AgoraPicBk 20 (1982), fig. 6.

Guide (1976), p. 251, fig. 131.

Travlos (1971), fig. 701.

AgoraPicBk 4 (1960), fig. 14.

Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 362, fig. 51-52.

Agora X, p. 25, pl. 1, no. BW1.

Agora XIV, p. 44, pl. 33.

IG I3, 1411.

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Object B 495
Associated Passages
45. Particles, Adverbs, and Defective Verbs: Key Terms and Concepts
Type
Image
Date
ca. 500 BC.
Culture
Greek
Medium
Bronze
Inscription
ΣΤΑΤΗΡ
Location
Athens, Greece
Image Credit
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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Bronze Dikast Ticket with the Name of a Potential Juror

A thin metal strip punched with two lines of Greek lettering

A small, thin, bronze strip used as an identification ticket (πινάκιον, πινακίου, τό) used in the random selection of jurors, or dikasts (δικαστής, δικαστοῦ, ὁ). This ticket is inscribed with a potential juror’s name (Δημοφάνης), patronymic (Φιλ…), and deme (Κηφισιεύς). 

Comments

Bibliography:

Museum Guide (2014), p. 140, fig. 77.

Mauzy (2006), p. 73, fig. 157.

AgoraPicBk 4 (2004), p. 23, fig. 26.

AgoraPicBk 23 (1994), p. 24, fig. 28.

Guide (1990), p. 247, fig. 151.

Guide (1976), p. 110.

Kroll (1972a), pp. 224-225, fig. 240, no. 130.

AgoraPicBk 4 (1960), fig. 22.

Archaeology 6 (1953), p. 143.

Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 216, pl. 71b.

Agora XIV, p. 53, pl. 39 e.

Agora XXVII, p. 61, pl. 7, no. P 2.

Online Resources
Dow, S. (1963). Dikasts' bronze pinakia. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique,…
Associated Passages
4. Parsing a Greek Verb: Key Terms and Concepts
Date
4th century BC
Culture
Greek
Medium
Bronze
Inscription
ΔΗΜΟΦΑΝΗΣΦΙΛ.../ΚΗΦΙΣΙΕΥΣ
Location
Athens, Greece
Image Credit
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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Thermae boxer (Boxer at Rest)

A boxer sits on a rock resting after his match. His head is turned, looking over his right shoulder. Injuries on his body and face are highlighted with red copper to mimic blood; small drops fall onto his body. He also shows signs of long-term injuries such as cauliflower ear. He is nude except for his leather hand-wraps.

So-called “Thermae boxer”; athlete resting after a boxing match. Bronze sculpture, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme Inv. 1055. Image by Marie-Lan Nguyen via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.

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Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo
Associated Passages
463-489
1122-1137
Type
Image
License
Creative Commons Attribution
Date
3rd-2nd centuries BCE
Medium
Bronze
Location
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
Image Credit
Wikimedia Commons
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