#ephesos

Greek ring with a bee and the letters E and Φ (short for Ephesos)

3rd century BCE

• HEAD of a Goddess + Head of Hermes

• Goddess: Roman, Marble, 1 AD after a Greek model of ca 460 BC. From Ephesus, the Marble Hall of the Harbour Gymnasium. "This head belongs to the statue of an unIDed goddess; unfortunately none of the extant copies of this type - known as "Candia" after one of the oldest examples, which was discovered on Crete - have retained an attribute that would allow archaeologists to identify her. However, the large number of extant ancient copies suggests that all these statues are based on a well-known Greek model from the Classical period."

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• Hermes: Roman transformation, Marble, 2 AD after a Greek original. From Ephesus, found in 1896 near the propylaea of the Harbour Gymnasium. "The wings ID this youthful deity as Hermes .. This is a transformation of the head of a statue of Hercules produced by the Greek sculptor Polycleitus in the 2nd-half of the 5th c. BC. Although the wings change the figure's ID, his turned head and the conception of his hairstyle have also been altered, this copy from the early Antonine period clearly references the Classical bronze model."

[Txt ©Ephesos Museum, Vienna]

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Apoxyomenos (athlete scraping his body with a strigil). Bronze. Roman copy of a bronze original by Polykleitos ca. 320 BCE. Inv. No. 129. Vienna, Ephesos Museum. Photo: © 2012. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.