Cast of the head of Juno Sospita, from Lanuvium

Cast of the head of Juno Sospita, from Lanuvium (CG.H.105, record shot)

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image, internal record shot)

Details

Title

Cast of the head of Juno Sospita, from Lanuvium
Associated place

Basel (place of purchase)

Italy (find spot of original)
Date

2010
Material and technique

plaster
Material index

plaster
Object type

cast
Dimensions

56 cm estimated (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 2010.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Cast Gallery
Accession no.

CG.H.105

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Catalogue text

Basel, Skulpturhalle, formerly Ludwig Sammlung, inv. SH 1115.

From Lanuvium, Italy.

Head from an acrolithic cult(?) statue in classical style. The headdress, perhaps a goat’s skin helmet, was made separately.

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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