Object Title
Fragment of a Pediment with a Goddess
Measurements
H: 20 1/2 x W: 21 1/4 x D: 5 1/8 in. (52 x 54 x 13 cm)
Creation Date
2nd century CE
Credit Line
Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster, 2014
Museum Contact
provenance@thewalters.org
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/76514/fragment-of-a-pediment-with-a-goddess/
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
The Walters Art Museum is in the process of determining definitions of antiquity
Provenance Information
James Nash, London, 1963, by purchase; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, 1965, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2014, by gift
Exhibition Information
Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art, The Walters Art Museum, 20 July-7 September 2008
Publication Information
J. Pirenne, “Le rinceau dans l'evolution de l'art sud-arabe,” Syria 34 (1957): 99-127, at 103-108, pl. 7a; D. B. Doe, Southern Arabia (1971), fig. 9; G. Mandel, Il regno di Saba: Ultimo paradiso archeologico (1976), 113 (illust.); R. Schulz, ed., Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art, exh. cat. (2008) 114, no. 30 (illust.).
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
This object was brought onsite to the Walters as part of a long-term loan in 2007