Sappho & 80 Sappho Asteroid - New York City, NY
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N 40° 46.762 W 073° 57.762
18T E 587529 N 4514782
This sculpture is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WMPTC9
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2015
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There is no charge to visit the Museum.
The life-sized marble sculpture depicts the poet lounging on a chair and wearing long robes and sandals.
The Museum's website (
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"Sappho
Artist: Count Prosper d'Epinay (Port Louis, Mauritius,1836–1914 Paris)
Date: ca. 1895
Culture: French
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: Height: 65 3/8 in. (166.1 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Lent by Count Prosper d'Epinay, 1897
Accession Number: O.L.97.IV
On view in Gallery 548"
Wikipedia (
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"Sappho ... was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments...
As for the asteroid, Wikipediah ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Sappho provides the following info:
"80 Sappho (/'sæfo?/ saf-oh) is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Norman Pogson on May 2, 1864, and is named after Sappho, the Greek poet.
13-cm radar observations of this asteroid from the Arecibo Observatory between 1980 and 1985 were used to produce a diameter estimate of 83 km."