Object Title
Foot from and Idol of Kapsala or Spedos Type
Measurements
7.6 x 3.3 x 4.8 cm
Creation Date
ca. 3200-2700 BCE
Credit Line
Gift of Clara Mont-Claire O'Shea and John S. O'Shea in memory of Patricia A. O'Shea
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/10142/foot-from-an-idol-of-kapsala-or-spedos-type?ctx=ec0d268d510f1f6fd7e2aeb2351398ef754d5148&idx=1
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Said to be part of the "Keros Hoard". Ex coll. Hans (1900-1967) and Marie-Louise (1912-1997) Erlenmeyer, Basel, Switzerland, said to have been acquired from Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Geneva, Switzerland, prior to 1968. With Sotheby's London, 9 July 1990, lot 118. Purchased by MCCM from Jerome Eisenberg (1930-2022) [Royal-Athena Galleries], New York, New York.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - June 19, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Publication Information
Jurgen Thimme, Art and Culture of the Cyclades: Handbook of an Ancient Civilization (Karlsruhe: Muller, 1977), 85, figure 71.
Pat Getz-Preziosi, "The "Keros Hoard": Introduction to an Early Cycladic Enigma," in Antidoron: Festschrift fur Jurgen Thimme zum 65. Geburtstag am 26. September 1982, ed. Dieter Metzler, et al. (Karlsruhe: C.F. Muller, 1983), 37, 40, figure 4.
Sotheby's London, Antiquities from the Erlenmeyer Collection (9 July 1990), 84, lot 118.
Lila I Marangou, The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation: Activities Report 1991-1999 (Athens: Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art, 2001), 19, figure 11.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Peggy Sotirakopoulou, The "Keros Hoard": Myth or Reality?: Searching for the Lost Pieces of a Puzzle (Los Angeles: Getty, 2006), 118, number 51.
Pat Getz-Preziosi, "The "Keros Hoard": Introduction to an Early Cycladic Enigma," in Antidoron: Festschrift fur Jurgen Thimme zum 65. Geburtstag am 26. September 1982, ed. Dieter Metzler, et al. (Karlsruhe: C.F. Muller, 1983), 37, 40, figure 4.
Sotheby's London, Antiquities from the Erlenmeyer Collection (9 July 1990), 84, lot 118.
Lila I Marangou, The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation: Activities Report 1991-1999 (Athens: Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art, 2001), 19, figure 11.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Peggy Sotirakopoulou, The "Keros Hoard": Myth or Reality?: Searching for the Lost Pieces of a Puzzle (Los Angeles: Getty, 2006), 118, number 51.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Hans Erlenmeyer died in 1967, and published reports suggest the object was in the Erlenmeyer collection prior to his death.