Male Torso
Artist
Unknown
CultureRoman (Egypt)
Date2nd century C.E.
MediumBasalt
DimensionsOverall: 16 x 8 in. (40.6 x 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2261
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 108
Label TextTorso Roman (Egypt), 100–200 C.E. Basalt (stone) Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2261 Young, muscular, and dynamically poised, this statue of a naked athlete captures the essence of male physical perfection in the Greek and Roman world. Sculpted of green basalt from Egypt, it also reveals the geographic reach of Imperial Rome, which by 30 B.C.E. had conquered Egypt and much of the rest of the Mediterranean world, and could import exotic and colorful stone from across the Empire for the production of sculpture in Rome.
ca. 1st century BC-1st century AD
