Thorn Puller (Spinario)
2nd century
Physical Qualities
Marble, Without Base: 16 3/4 x 8 3/4 x 9 in. (42.5 x 22.2 x 22.9 cm.)
Base: 5 x 10 x 8 in. (12.7 x 25.4 x 20.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number
1937.124
Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum, "Antioch: The Lost Roman City", October 7, 2000-January 7, 2001, no. 61, pp. 100, 168, 176, ill.; circulated to Cleveland Museum of Art, March 18-June 3, 2001, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, September 6-December 30, 2001.
Richard Stillwell, ed., "Antioch-on-the Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1932-1936," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, no. 104, p. 170.
Dorothy K. Hill, 'Some Sculpture from Roman Domestic Gardens,' "Ancient Roman Gardens, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture," no. 7, Washington, D.C., 1981, fig. 14, p. 92.
Kondoleon, Christine, ed. Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with the Worcester Art Museum, 2000, p. 176, ill.
Scott Redford, Editor, "Antioch on the Orontes: Early Explorations in the City of Mosaics," Istanbul, Turkey: Universitesi Yayinlari, 2014, pp. 242-243, ill.
