Cast of a statue of an Amazon in Lansdowne type, from Rome
Details
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Title
Cast of a statue of an Amazon in Lansdowne type, from Rome
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Associated place
Rome (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
202 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1884.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.C.86
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Catalogue text
Berlin, Antikensammlung SMB, inv. K 176.
Found in 1868 at Vicolo di S. Nicolo di Tolentino in Rome, Italy.
Statue of wounded Amazon, the so-called ‘Lansdowne/Sciarra/Berlin’ type. 1st-2nd century AD, after statue of c. 440 BC.
Modern: nose, right arm and hand, left forearm and hand, feet, pillar, plinth. The lower edge of the chiton pared in places.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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