Cast of a fragment of an Athenian grave relief, later recarved to show a surgeon
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Details
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Title
Cast of a fragment of an Athenian grave relief, later recarved to show a surgeon
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Associated place
Freiburg im Breisgau (place of purchase) -
Date
2001 - 2007 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
113 x 57 cm estimated (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 2007.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.H.97
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Catalogue text
Freiburg, Archaeological Museum, inv. S 535.
Acquired in 2004 from private collection in the USA.
A 4th century Athenian grave relief with a seated male citizen was recarved in the 1st century AD with new portrait features and with the addition of a set of surgical instruments and book scrolls on a shelf, which identify the subject as a surgeon.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)
