Cast of a relief of a seated woman with a child, from Agrigento
Details
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Title
Cast of a relief of a seated woman with a child, from Agrigento
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Associated place
Acragas (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
19 cm estimated (height) -
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.64
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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.
Relief of woman with long hair wearing crown and dressed in chiton and mantle. She is seated on chair with an infant on her lap.
See B 30-1, 61-3, 65-7, 79, 93 and D 14-6 for other casts of moulds from the same find.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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