Cast of a relief of seated female figures, from Agrigento
Details
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Title
Cast of a relief of seated female figures, from Agrigento
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Associated place
Acragas (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
9 x 13 cm estimated (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, probably after 1927.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.D.130
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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.
Two and a half fully dressed identical women(?), seated on thrones holding infants(?).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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