Cast of a nude male torso from the Acropolis, Athens
Details
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Title
Cast of a nude male torso from the Acropolis, Athens
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Associated place
Acropolis (east of the Parthenon) (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
63 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.B.16
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Catalogue text
Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 145.
Found in 1883 east of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece.
Torso from statue of naked male, with fingers from hand of another statue on the left shoulder. The youth’s hand, taking a man by the throat, also remains (Acropolis museum), and the subject may have been Theseus and one of his opponents, such as Procrustes.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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