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The small marble group in the collection of antiquities of New York University, published by Karl Lehmann as "The Girl Beneath the Apple Tree" in AJA 49 (1945) 430-33, can now be reinterpreted. A comparison with a coin from Temenothyrae (Phrygia) of the time of Valerian allows us to reconstruct the group as a representation of Herakles in the Garden of the Hesperides, and to restore a figure of Herakles on the right side of the base, now empty. The statuette is thus "promoted" from genre scene to mythological representation. A statuette of Ganymede and the Eagle excavated at Carthage in 1977, recently published by Elaine Gazda, and a group of small sculptures similar to the Ganymede and to the Herakles in size, style, workmanship, and type of molded base, provide a date (ca. A.D. 400) and cultural context for the New York University statuette. The New York group now takes its place as an interesting example of Late Antique pagan, mythological sculpture, significant for our understanding of the intellectual and artistic environment of that period. In 1945 Karl Lehmann published a small sculpture in the collection of antiquities of the Classics Department of New York University (figs

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Author

Larissa Bonfante; Candace Carter

Published

1987

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)