Cast of the Kritios Boy from the Acropolis, Athens
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Details
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Title
Cast of the Kritios Boy from the Acropolis, Athens
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Associated place
Acropolis (find spot of original) -
Date
2nd half of the 19th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
102 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1895.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.B.68.a
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Catalogue text
Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 698.
Found on the Athenian Acropolis, the body between 1863 and 1866 southeast of the Parthenon, the head in 1888 between the Museum and the South Wall of the Acropolis.
Statue of naked boy, an athlete(?). His long hair is combed and terminates in thick locks wound around a band encircling the head. Perhaps by Kritios of Athens.
The shank (B 68 b) probably acquired later.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)
