Statuette of an Enthroned Figure
1st century
- Medium
- Bronze and silver inlay
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 15.5 × 8.1 × 9.5 cm (6 1/8 × 3 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Roman Empire
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Wirt D. Walker Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This statuette is thought to depict Concordia, the Roman personification of harmony, one of the four principal virtues of the Roman Empire. Concordia sits on a high-backed throne and wears an ornamental headband, a long tunic tied above her waist, and a cloak, which drapes over her left shoulder and lap. The figure likely held a libation dish in her extended right hand and a cornucopia (horn of plenty) in her missing left hand.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
