拍品 37
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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ALEXANDER ENTHRONED
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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ALEXANDER ENTHRONED

1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ALEXANDER ENTHRONED
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Seated with himation over his left shoulder and falling over his lap and around his waist to reveal a naked torso, in his right hand he brandishes a sheathed sword in the guise of a sceptre, his left hand is extended probably to hold a globe (now missing), mounted
4¼ in. (11 cm.) high
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PUBLISHED: Images, no. 8.

For another representation of Alexander enthroned, cf. a seated bronze figure from Rheims in the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated in M. Bieber, Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art, Chicago, 1964, p. 74, fig. 96, pl. XLIX, where Bieber comments, "The idea of Alexander as godlike, but at the same time a ruler of the world who trusted his own weapons and was thus on a level with Zeus, is behind [these] Roman creations..."