Cast of head of Centaur from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Details
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Title
Cast of head of Centaur from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
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Associated place
Olympia (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
56 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1927.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.A.63
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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.
West pediment with fight between Lapiths and Centaurs (Centauromachy) at the wedding of Peirithoos.
Olympia Museum, inv. L 82.
Found in 1877, 40 m to the south-west of the temple.
Head from figure of centaur (P), biting into the arm of another figure (Q = A 64), who holds P around the neck. The centaur has long hair and full beard. From the right side(?) of the west pediment.
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)
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