Bronze Statuette of Jupiter in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Statuette of Jupiter
Gallo-Roman, AD 100-200
Bronze

Inventory # 96.AB.42

This figure of Jupiter once held a thunderbolt and a scepter. The statuette was modeled after the life-size statue of Zeus Brontaios (the Thunderer) created by Greek sculptor Leochares in the mid-300s BC. In 22 BC Leochares' work was brought to Rome and placed in Jupiter's temple on the Capitoline Hil. Although the original has not survived, many copies still exist.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.