Cast of a horse and rider from the Acropolis, Athens
Details
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Title
Cast of a horse and rider from the Acropolis, Athens
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Associated place
Acropolis (east of the Erechtheion) (find spot of original) -
Date
early 20th century -
Material and technique
plaster, painted
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
112 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.28
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Catalogue text
Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 700.
Found in 1887, in a pit east of the Erechtheion on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece.
Small statue of horse with left leg and hand of horseman. Details were added in paint (remains on mane and rider’s foot). The polygonal support under the belly of the horse was part of the original monument.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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