Cast of the head of Mithridates VI of Pontos
Details
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Title
Cast of the head of Mithridates VI of Pontos
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Associated place
Munich (Glyptothek) (place of creation) -
Date
2001 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
36 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 2001.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.H.55
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Catalogue text
Head of Mithridates VI, king of Pontos (120-63 BC). He has sidewhiskers and wears a lion-skin cap. 1st century AD, copy after portrait of c. 100-80 BC.
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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