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Artist/Maker Unknown Statue of a male deity known as "Jupiter of Smyrna". 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. Dimensions H. 234 cm (7 ft. 8 in.) Credit line Gardens of Versailles; seized during the French Revolution, 1793 Accession number Ma 13 (MR 255) Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Denon, ground floor, room A Photographer Jastrow (2006)
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