Cast of the Herakles Marotti from Rome
Details
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Title
Cast of the Herakles Marotti from Rome
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Associated place
Rome (probable; between the Aventine Hill and the Tiber) (find spot of original) -
Date
early 20th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
57 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1918.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.C.24
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Catalogue text
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. 14.733.
Found between the Aventine Hill and the Tiber in Rome(?). Previously in a Bavarian collection. Given to the Museum by E.P. Warren.
Statuette of naked Herakles in Boston-Oxford type, with club, and lionskin. Roman, 2nd century AD, copy of work of c. 460 BC.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)
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