Bronze man seated on a ball

Unknown

ca. 725–700 BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art

This object is equiped either to stand or to be hung. The combination of a figure atop a hollow ball is common in small bronzes of Thessaly (northern Greece). These works may have been dedications.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 725–700 BCE

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Greek

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1947