Cast of head of Athena from the pediment of the Old Temple, Athenian Acropolis

Cast of head of Athena from the pediment of the Old Temple, Athenian Acropolis (CG.A.19, record shot)

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

Details

Title

Cast of head of Athena from the pediment of the Old Temple, Athenian Acropolis
Associated place

Athens (place of purchase)

Athens (find spot of original)
Date

2nd half of the 19th century
Material and technique

plaster
Material index

plaster
Object type

cast;

sculpture
Dimensions

31 cm estimated (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1888.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Cast Gallery
Accession no.

CG.A.19

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Catalogue text

Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 631A.

Found in 1863 on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, during construction work for the first museum.

Head from statue of Athena, with long hair, parted at centre. She wears a helmet and disc-shaped earrings. From the east pediment of the temple.

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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