Cast of a female head from the Acropolis, Athens

Cast of a female head from the Acropolis, Athens (CG.B.110, record shot)

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image, internal record shot)

Details

Title

Cast of a female head from the Acropolis, Athens
Associated place

Acropolis (find spot of original)
Date

1911 - 1926
Material and technique

plaster
Material index

plaster
Object type

statue;

cast
Dimensions

23 cm estimated (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1911 or 1926.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Cast Gallery
Accession no.

CG.B.110

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Catalogue text

Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 1223.

From the Athenian Acropolis, Greece.

Head of goddess with long wavy hair wrapped up in a sakkos, perhaps from statue of Hygieia.

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

Kabus-Jahn,R, Studien zu Frauenfiguren des vierten Jahrhunderts vor Christus (Darmstadt, 1963)

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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