Cast of the head of Laokoon
On display
Details
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Title
Cast of the head of Laokoon
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 19th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
238 x 165 cm estimated (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1888.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 49 | Britain and Italy -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.B.233
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Catalogue text
Second cast of head of same original as B 130. Laokoon naked with full beard and long hair sits on a square altar partly covered by his mantle, trying to free himself from two snakes. On either side is a naked boy (Laocoon’s sons) with short hair likewise engaged. Late Hellenistic, by the Rhodian sculptors Hagesandros, Polydoros and Athenodoros.
In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
