Handle in the form of a figurine

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ Χ 6560

Category

Vessel attachment

Period

Archaic Period

Date

End of 6th-beginning of 5th cent. BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.19 m

Material

Bronze

Location

First Floor Case 16, Νο 9

Description
Bibliography

Handle in the form of a male figurine belonging to a phiale-shaped vessel. The man is depicted nude in an austere frontal pose with his legs straight and parallel to each other. He steps on a palmette with his arms bended upwards where he “holds” the metal element that connected the handle with the body of the phiale. This element is decorated with two volutes each one springing a six petal half-palmette.

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Rolley, Cl., Les statuettes de bronze (Monuments figurés: Petits bronzes), Fouilles de Delphes V 1, Paris, 1969, σελ. 108, αρ. κατ. 5
Mallwitz, A., Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Olympia 1966-1976, Olympia-Bericht X, Berlin, 1981, σελ. 145
Fuchs, W., Floren, J., Die griechische Plastik, I: Die geometrische und archaische Plastik, München, 1987, σελ. 306, αρ. κατ. 707
Tarditi, C., Bronze Vessels from the Acropolis: Style and Decoration in Athenian Production between the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC, Thiasos Monografie 7, Roma, 2016, σελ. 204, 287, αρ. κατ. 6560