Images(4)

Celestial God or Hero

Artist Unknown

Datelate 2nd–early 3rd century

MediumMarble

Dimensions80 x 37 x 22 in. (203.2 x 94 x 55.9 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number84.1

On View

On view

ProvenanceEuropean private collection (per McAlpine, see file); with McAlpine Ancient Art, London, by 1983; sold to NCMA, 1984.
Published References"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1984), discussed and illus. (b-w) 10.

Cornelius Vermeule, Alexander the Great Conquers Rome (Cambridge, MA: Sir Northwald Nuffler Foundation, 1986), 7, 45, 51, illus. fig. 1.

Cornelius C. Vermeule, III, Greek Imperial Art/Numismatic Art of the Greek Imperial World (Cambridge: The CopyQuik Corp., private printing, 1986), illus. 14.

Cornelius Vermeule, The Cult Images of Imperial Rome (Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 1987), illus. fig. 43A-B.

Meg Gunkel, "Arts Sampler: Cultural Resources for North Carolina," NCArts 3 (1986), 11.

Cornelius C. Vermeule, III, Greek Imperial Art, Vol. 5, part 2 (Cambridge, MA: CopyQuik Corp., private printing, 1986), 14, illus.

Cornelius C. Vermeule, "The Rise of the Severan Dynasty in the East: Young Caracalla, about the Year 205, as Helios-Sol," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 14, no. 4 (1990), 30-48, illus. (b-w) 29, 38, (b-w details) 38, 39, 43, 44.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 34.

"Med in Latin: Department of Classical Studies" (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1994-94), illus. front of flyer.

Steven E. Hijmans, "Castor, Caracalla and the so-called Statue of Sol in the North Carolina Museum of Art," Babesch Bulletin: Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology, no. 69 (Leiden, 1994), 165-174, illus. 166-167, 172.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Emperor Caracalla in the Guise of Helios, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 39, illus. (color).

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Emperor Caracalla in the Guise of Helios, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 80, illus. (color) 81.
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