A South Italian polychrome terracotta figure of Ganymede and the Eagle

CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A South Italian polychrome terracotta figure of Ganymede and the Eagle
Circa 3rd-2nd Century B.C.
The nude youth wearing a foliate headdress with taeniae, a torque and long scarf, with foliate decorated calf straps, traces of yellow, red, brown and black pigment, (legs and arms repaired; feet, left hand and right thumb missing; eagle's left wing repaired)
11¾in. (29.8cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. MüM Sonderliste S, front cover, pl. 39, no. 52; Oktober 1987, pl. 24, no. 26.

Ganymede was the son of King Tros (who gave his name to Troy). Enamoured of Ganymede's great beauty Zeus, in the form of an eagle, abducted the youth, taking him to Mount Olympus where he became one of the Immortals as the cup-bearer of the gods. He is usually depicted either as a youth wearing a Phrygian cap seated by Zeus or as a youth being carried off by an eagle/Zeus disguised as an eagle