Left Hand Resting Against a Tambourine (?)
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Not on view at present
Where is “Left Hand Resting Against a Tambourine (?)” now? Collection: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
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- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
Left Hand Resting Against a Tambourine (?)
The hand is broken away at the wrist, and the edges of the round object have suffered.
This rather delicate female hand might come from a small statue of Cybele or a Muse or even a personified province such as Phrygia. The colossal figure of Parian marble in the Ince Blundell Hall collection at Liverpool stands with her left hand on a tambourine or tympanum and has been identified as Phrygia, Bithynia, or Cappadocia, one of a series of provinces from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Toynbee, 1984, pp. 67-69, pl. XXIV, 4). This fragment could have come from a small statue of this type.
Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer
Harvard Art Museums
Details
- Accession number
- 1920.44.180
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
