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Elliott, Class of 1951","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"","restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":true,"accessionyear":"1989-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Funeral monument of a charioteer","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Purchased from The Merrin Gallery, New York.;","remarks":"From accession card. "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"The sculptor of this funeral monument represented the charioteer with a broad face, almond-shaped eyes, curly hair, and wavy beard, features that bear a striking resemblance to portraits of the emperor Hadrian. Hadrian was always (and unusually for the time) shown with facial hair that was more in line with the style in Greece. While the charioteer may or may not have resembled the emperor in life, the inclusion of the beard suggests that he deliberately chose to emulate the emperor. He also wears a tunic and harness of thick leather straps, the distinctive equipment of a professional charioteer; adorning the two sides of the monument are prancing horses, underscoring his profession. Charioteers were often enslaved, though some were able to accumulate winnings and buy their freedom. That may have been the case with this individual, who then commissioned this monument to commemorate his life and accomplishments.","remarks":"MED2_22_CLA.pdf – Day One Cataloguing"}],"media":[{"id":3537,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/y1989-41","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"},{"id":3538,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/y1989-41_DET","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection</i> (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)","citation":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection</i> (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 95 (illus.)","date":2007,"id":474,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/191864564"},{"boilertext":"Sinclair Bell, <em>Images of chariot racing in the funerary sculpture of the Roman Empire: typology, chronology, and context, </em>Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2005.","citation":"Sinclair Bell, <em>Images of chariot racing in the funerary sculpture of the Roman Empire: typology, chronology, and context, </em>Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2005., Black and White - Existing Negative","date":2005,"id":64,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/606585676"},{"boilertext":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </i>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)","citation":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </i>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 95","date":2013,"id":1994,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/865020505"},{"boilertext":"J. 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