Cast of a statue of Nereid from the Nereid Monument, Xanthos
Details
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Title
Cast of a statue of Nereid from the Nereid Monument, Xanthos
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Associated place
Xanthus (find spot of original) -
Date
late 19th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
with plinth 149 cm estimated (height)
without plinth 140 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1884 or 1887.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.A.116
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Catalogue text
London, British Museum.
A 116-7 Found by C. Fellows in 1842 on the north side of hill in Xanthos in Lycia, Turkey.
Taken to the British Museum between 1844-46.
Funerary monument from Xanthos, Lycia. The sculptural decoration consisted of: four friezes; two—one above the other—on the upper part of the podium; one on the epistyle and one around the cella; a pedimental group; acroteria, and statues in the round (‘Nereids’, ‘Aurai’) between the columns.
London, British Museum, cat. 909.
Here a statue of ‘Nereid’ wearing long, ungirt dress, mantle, and short diploidion, reaching just below the breasts, held by narrow strings passing over the shoulders. Below is a bird.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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