Cast of kneeling groom from the east pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Details
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Title
Cast of kneeling groom from the east pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
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Associated place
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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
105 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1927.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.A.46.a
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Catalogue text
Pedimental sculptures and metopes from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece. Classical Greek, begun after 470 BC and finished by 456 BC.
East pediment with Oinomaos and Pelops before chariot-race.
Olympia Museum, inv. L 56.
The torso was found in 1877 built into later structures 19 m to the north-east of the temple, the left leg 28 m to the east.
Figure of naked groom (B), kneeling at the head of Pelops’ horses on the left side of the east pediment. See A 46b.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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