Item Bonomi MSS 36.20 - Three-quarter view of free-standing bronze statue of Danaid fastening dress at shoulder (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5619, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC), with diagrams of peplos and measurements

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Three-quarter view of free-standing bronze statue of Danaid fastening dress at shoulder (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5619, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC), with diagrams of peplos and measurements:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 26.1 x 37.9 cm
• [on sketch] 'The measurements taken with the Passetto / all round the edge A measured with a string maxed is 7.2 1/2 / From B to the edge A is 1 „ 6 measured down the middle of the statue / From the corner A+ to the hem C measures 2 „ 4 / From the bottom of the hem D to the top C measures 3 „ 3 1/2 / Round the bottom edge D measures 5 „ 2 / From the edge A to the bottom D measures 3 „ 1 (pencil note)
• [on sketch] This represents the half of the dress or rather folded in two' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'as the figure has a belt that supports the dress becaus it throws over at C which is the inside surface of the dress therefore the measure 6.1 is uncertain but it cannot be less therefore the measurement 33 1/2 must be too little or the dress must form half a circle, there where is the angle A+' (pencil note)
• [key to measurements annotated in sketch and one diagram] 'A / B / C / D / A+' (pencil note)

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