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Source Image: PR308_07_11 of Apprentice Pieces: Hands of Aphrodisias: Apprentice Pieces

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Description

Carved hand, perhaps an apprentice piece.

Monument
Aphrodisias: Apprentice Pieces 
Monument Part
Apprentice Pieces: Hands 
Monument Type
Statuary 
Material(s)
Aphrodisian marble (Visual identification)  
Date
post ad 1 - pre ad 450 
Keywords
Body  
Collections
Aphrodisias, Site and Museum  

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 
Current Location
Aphrodisias Museum depot 

Evidence for working practices

1. Measuring point

Process
Measurement
Description
This hand, which seems to be an apprentice piece, appears to have a measuring point in the middle of its top side. This was probably used as a reference point to help the carver lay out the form of the hand.

Notes

A large number of carved feet have been found at Aphrodisias, many of them of relatively low quality, which seem to have been produced by apprentices or trainee sculptors in the city. A smaller group of hands were also found. Hands and feet were probably used because they are fairly complicated anatomically, because the pieces of stone on which they were carved could be laid down on a flat surface, and because the sculptors could use their own appendages as models.

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