Terracotta Statuette of Polyphemus Squatting on his Heels in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018

Polyphemos squatting on his heels

Greek

Late Classical

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

Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Kabirion

Medium/Technique: Terracotta

Dimensions: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution

Accession Number: 01.7756

Collections: Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome

Classifications: Sculpture

Description: Polyphemos squatting on his heels, elbows resting on knees. Naked and pot-bellied. Holding a one-handled wine cup in his left hand. Beared and with a single, large eye perched above his brow. Whole front colored deep red.

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

Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151640/polyphemos-squatting-on-his-heels