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Statuette of a Black African Person
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About this work
Characterized as a Black African person by his hair, facial features, and unusually dark patina, this figure wears a non-Greek type of hat and a simple garment associated with lower classes. His stooped posture suggests that he may have a physical disability, something rarely depicted in Greek art. His right foot and right hand (with bowl) are modern restorations done before the statuette came to Cleveland, perhaps in the 1800s.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStatuette of a Black African Person, 100–50 BCE. Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty. Bronze, solid cast, with silver and copper inlays; overall: 18.4 x 5.3 x 7.2 cm (7 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 2 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1963.507
