On the Nymph with Panther...
The statue portrays a female figure standing on her left
leg, her right leg slightly bent, wearing a light chiton that
models her breasts with soft large folds and drops to the ground
in soft abundant folds that partly cover the upper part of
the feet. The wide, richly draped mantel covers the shoulders
and at the waist forms a wide transverse fold that lies on
the extended left arm. The head, probably not pertinent, reconstructed
from various fragments, has wavy hair typical of ideal representations
attributed to different deities or personification of abstract
concepts.
The roll in the left hand and the flute attribute
in the right hand, fruit of a modern restoration, characterize
the statue as one of the Muses of the Apollonian retinue. |