Item Bonomi MSS 36.13 - Frontal view of free-standing bronze statue of Hypermnestra (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5603, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC), with diagrams of peplos and measurements

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Frontal view of free-standing bronze statue of Hypermnestra (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5603, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC), with diagrams of peplos and measurements:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 25.9 x 38.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'one proof that the edge ABC is circular is that the acorn(?) B hangs the lowest the measure-ment 4.9 as this figure has no zone may be correct' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The length of the figure is' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'ascertain if it be of this shape' (pencil note)
• [key to measurements annotated in sketch and two diagrams] 'A / B / C / D / E' (pencil note)

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