Collection: Butrinto, Albania
Title: Copy of Nemesis of Rhamnous
Findspot: Excavated at Butrinto, Theater
Summary: Copy of Nemesis of Rhamnous
Object Function: Unknown
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue
Category: Original/copies
Style: High Classical
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Copy
Original: Cult statue of Nemesis of Rhamnous
Dimensions: H. 2.4 m
Scale: Life-size
Region: Illyria
Period: Roman

Condition: Nearly complete

Condition Description: Nearly complete, with plinth, but missing both forearms.

Material Description: The head, of the Anzio Apollo type, is made of island marble, but the body is of a different marble, according to Ugolini.

Sources Used: Smith 1997, cat. S 2c; Despinis 1971, 29 no. 3, pl. 43.1-2 (with previous bibliography on the head); Mathiopoulos 1968, 182 n. 225; Despinis 1966a, 223 no. 8, pl. 35b; Picard/Manuel, 4.2, 1015, fig. 402; EAA 2 (1959) 235 s.v. Butrinto (P.C. Sestieri); Schmidt 1957, 151 no. 37 (7); Paribeni 1953, 66 no. 118 (5); Lippold 1950, 213, n. 1; L. Ugolini, L'acropoli di Butrinto (Rome 1937) 47, 60, 137, fig. 30, 85-86; L. Ugolini, Iapigia 4 (1933) 4, 10; W. Deonna, Dédale 2 (Paris 1931) 159, n. 3; E.H. Heffner ed., "Archaeological News 1930. Albania," AJA 34 (1930) 371; E. Boehringer, "Archäologische Funde. Albanien," AA 44 (1929) 431; L. Ugolini, "La Dea di Butrinto," BdA 2 ser. 8 (1928) 258; Reinach/RS, 6.171.1, 4