Cast of a mould pressed relief with a reclining youth
Details
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Title
Cast of a mould pressed relief with a reclining youth
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Associated place
Acragas (near the Hellenistic portico outside the city wall) (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
26 x 25 cm estimated (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, after 1927.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.B.31
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Catalogue text
Agrigento, Museo Archeologico Regionale.
Excavated in 1927 near the Hellenistic portico outside the city wall at Acragas (Agrigento) in Sicily.
Reclining youth with long hair parted in the middle and taken back. He wears himation, and holds a piece of fruit(?) in his left hand.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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