Untitled statuette

Item

Title
Untitled statuette
Description
“Statuette; ivory; carved; a nude figure in the form of Prometheus, who is shackled and chained at his wrists and ankle to a rock; the chains and rock are made of bronze, attached to a rectangular base by means of a screw with a washer in the form of a coin.”
Identifier
Promethean_Iconography_10
Creator
Unknown
Date
circa 1600s C.E.
Spatial Coverage
Great Britain (island)
Relation
British Museum (museum)
Format
statuettes (statues)
Type
ivory (material)
bronze (metal)
carving (processes)
Subject
Prometheus (Greek deity)
Torture of Prometheus (Greek narrative)
Source
Statuette from The British Museum
Rights
The image will be released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons here.
Copyright
Item sets
Promethean Iconography
Media
Untitled_statuette

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Prometheus Torture of Prometheus sculpture Modern