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Flying Nike (Victory) holding a comic mask and a scroll
Greek, East Greek
Hellenistic Period
150–130 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
26.3 cm (10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7706
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Burr, Terra-cottas from Myrina (MFA), no. 070.
DescriptionStatuette of Nike (Victory) floating down. She is looking to the left; in her left hand, which she is lifting she is holding a comic mask; in her right hand she is holding a scroll. She is dressed in a chiton with overfold, which leaves her left breast bare; it has a panel down the right side. She is wearing her hair in a double knot at the back and earrings in her ears.
Missing: wings, some fingers of right hand.
Color well preserved. Pinkish on flesh, reddish-brown on hair. The statuette has a hang-hole on the back for suspension and no vent hole but two slits for wings.
Red clay.
Missing: wings, some fingers of right hand.
Color well preserved. Pinkish on flesh, reddish-brown on hair. The statuette has a hang-hole on the back for suspension and no vent hole but two slits for wings.
Red clay.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Myrina; from the private collection of the late M. Baltazzi); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901