Cast of the Blond Boy head from the Acropolis, Athens
Details
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Title
Cast of the Blond Boy head from the Acropolis, Athens
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Associated place
Acropolis (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
25 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1925.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.B.69
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Catalogue text
Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 689.
Found in 1886 within the walls of the ancient building at the southeast corner of the Athenian Acropolis, Greece.
Head from statue of a youth. He is clean-shaven and has short hair that radiates from the crown in wavy ridges and falls around the scull as a cap. A meniskos was attached on top of the head, and traces of paint remain on the original.
Additional fragments attributed to the statue are kept in Athens (Acr. inv. 6478).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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