cast, pediment, sculpture
On display
Details
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.A.48
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Catalogue text
Pedimental sculptures and metopes from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece. Classical Greek, begun after 470 BC and finished by 456 BC.
East pediment with Oinomaos and Pelops before chariot-race.
Olympia Museum, inv. L 51.
Found in 1877 built into a later structure 80 m to the south-east of the temple.
Helmeted head with full beard from figure of King Oinomaos (I) from the centre of the east pediment of the temple.
Most of the statue is preserved in Olympia.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)
