14A021
STATUE OF HYGIEIA,
GODDESS OF HEALTH
Roman, 2nd-3rd century A.D.
Marble, Height: 79 cm.

The goddess, headless, stands with her left leg slightly advanced, the knee flexed and the toes of her large, sandaled feet peeking out from beneath the drapery. Her himation falls in a series of graceful scallops over her right hip, terminating in a bunch of parallel folds that describe a smooth arc from her left shoulder to her right calf. A broad folded sash crosses the himation below her breasts. The goddess's right hand presses a thick snake against her body. It coils around her arm, but its head is now missing. Her left hand, also broken off, was originally extended before her body and held a patera or other bowl from which she fed the snake.

Ex Banca Nazionale Collection, Rome. Published: S. Reinach, Repertoire de la Statuaire, Vol. III (1904), p. 91, no. 8.

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