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Leda and the Swan: New marble sculpture from Skelani (Municipium Malvesatium)
- Source :
- Starinar, Vol 2017, Iss 67, Pp 151-166 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017.
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Abstract
- A fragmented marble sculpture was found during the construction works on the canalisation collector in Skelani (Municipium Malvesatium). The sculpture presents a life-size bird’s torso with his right webbed foot placed on a female’s left thigh, part of a folded cloth and a child-like hand placed on the lower part of the bird’s torso. It was identified as a mythological scene favoured in antiquity, of Leda and Zeus in the guise of the swan, at the moment of Zeus’ seduction of Leda. This sculptural fragment holds even greater significance in the comprehension of Roman provincial art, since to date, it represents a unique example of this iconographic type, not only in sculpture, but in any other work of art in the territory of the Central Balkans. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177007: Romanization, urbanization and transformation of urban centres of civilian and military character in the Roman provinces in the territory of Serbia]
- Subjects :
- Archeology
History
Sculpture
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Art history
Left thigh
Municipium Malvesatium
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Mythology
Art
Zeus (malware)
Work of art
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0601 history and archaeology
Leda and the Swan
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Classics
Antiquity
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Leda
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Subjects
Details
- Language :
- German
- ISSN :
- 24060739 and 03500241
- Volume :
- 2017
- Issue :
- 67
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Starinar
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....eb034a86cf6562862fcd3418bf78528c