Cast of a relief of a seated monkey, possibly holding a bird, from Agrigento

Cast of a relief of a seated monkey, possibly holding a bird, from Agrigento (CG.B.67, record shot)

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

Details

Title

Cast of a relief of a seated monkey, possibly holding a bird, from Agrigento
Associated place

Acragas (Hellenistic portico outside the city wall) (find spot of original)
Date

early 20th century
Material and technique

plaster
Material index

plaster
Object type

cast;

relief
Dimensions

11 cm estimated (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, after 1927.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Cast Gallery
Accession no.

CG.B.67

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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.

Relief of seated monkey holding bird(?).

See B 30-1, 61-6, 79, 93 and D 14-6 for other casts of moulds from the same find.

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

McDermott,W.C, The Ape in Antiquity (Baltimore, 1938)

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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