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Torso of Hygeia, Goddess of Health
(Roman Empire )
This statue depicts a draped female figure. She holds a snake in her right hand and wears a mantle brunched under her left elbow. There is a dowel hole at the left elbow for the attachment of a forearm. The head is gone, the snake is broken, the left forearm is gone and the piece is broken below the knees.
An old number "66" is painted over with a number "39."
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, by 1894 [mode of acquisition unknown] [marble no. 49]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Roman Empire (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 23 7/16 in. (59.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
23.42