Terracotta Statuette of Polyphemus Reclining and Drinking in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018

Polyphemos reclining and holding a drinking bowl

Greek

Late Classical Period

late 5th or early 4th centuries B.C.

Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia ?

Medium/Technique: Terracotta

Dimensions: 13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution

Accession Number: 01.7760

Collections: Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome

Classifications: Sculpture

Description: Caricature of Polyphemos, reclining. Holds a bowl in his left hand. Part of a group related to the Kabirion Sanctuary of Thebes.

Dark red on body. White slip well preserved. Badly incrusted. Feet repaired, with restorations behind.

Provenance: By 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Paris: said from Thebes); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901

Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151642/polyphemos-reclining-and-holding-a-drinking-bowl