Jupiter of Smyrna

Sculpture name: Jupiter of Smyrna

Artist: Unknown

Depicted people

Created: circa 250 AD

Medium: marble

Dimensions: Height: 234 cm

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Photographer Jastrow (2006)

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Found in 1680 in Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey), the statue was brought to Louis XIV and restored as a Zeus ca. 1686 by Pierre Granier, who added the arm raising the thunderbolt. Marble, middle 2nd century AD.

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