Cast of a statue of an Amazon in Mattei type, from the Caelian Hill, Rome

Cast of a statue of an Amazon in Mattei type, from the Caelian Hill, Rome (CG.C.89)

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Details

Title

Cast of a statue of an Amazon in Mattei type, from the Caelian Hill, Rome
Associated place

Paris (place of purchase)

Rome (Caelian Hill) (find spot of original)
Date

2nd half of the 19th century
Material and technique

plaster
Material index

plaster
Object type

statue;

cast
Dimensions

182 cm estimated (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1894.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Cast Gallery
Accession no.

CG.C.89

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Catalogue text

Vatican, Museo Pio Clementino, Galleria delle Statue, inv. 748.

Found on the Caelian Hill in Rome. In the Mattei collection from 1614 until purchased by the Vatican.

The Mattei statue of wounded Amazon. 2nd century AD, copy of statue of c. 440 BC.

Modern: the left shoulder, some folds (especially between the thighs), the edge of the chiton where it falls off the shoulder behind, right knee and shank, part of the left shank, the upper two thirds of the tree-trunk and of the shield and axe. The modern arms, neck, helmet-crest, and head have been removed in the cast.

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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