Parthenon metope, South 30, fragment
- Title:
- Parthenon metope, South 30, fragment
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (supervised by Phidias)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900 (cast)
447-438 BCE (original)
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Athens, Greece (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0391
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 164
9 (inscribed on top)
391 - File Name:
- CCC_0391.tif
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- High Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble relief (sculpture technique) (original) - Subject:
- Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Mythology, Classical
Centaurs - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 121 x 33 x 6.5 (maximum) (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a fragment from the lower right (viewer's) corner of a cast of metope South 30. It preserves a small section of the drapery of a kneeling Lapith, some blank background, and a segment of the upper edge of the metope.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Museum no. 1816,0610.14 - Bibliography:
- John Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985), 103-105, fig. 90
Frank Brommer, Die Metopen des Parthenon (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1967), 124-125, pls. 229-232
Ernst Berger, Der Parthenon in Basel: Dokumentation zu den Metopen (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986), 97, pl. 108
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 101 - Related Work:
- Belongs with 195, 483, and 503.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
London, British Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.