Cast of a relief of a miniature profile mask of a woman, from Agrigento
Details
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Title
Cast of a relief of a miniature profile mask of a woman, from Agrigento
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Associated place
Acragas (Hellenistic portico outside the city wall) (find spot of original) -
Date
1st half of the 20th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 10 cm estimated (height x width) -
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.66
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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 with left side of face of woman with long wavy hair.
See B 30-1, 61-5, 67, 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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