Athena Parthenos from the Athenian Acropolis
- Title:
- Athena Parthenos from the Athenian Acropolis
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Phidias (Greek original)
Unknown (Roman copy)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
447-438 BCE (Greek original)
1st or 2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (discovery site) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Athens, Greece (discovery site) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0467
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 160
273 carved on bottom
467 - File Name:
- CCC_0467.tif
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek High Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Athena (Greek deity)
Parthenon (Athens, Greece) - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 71 x 60 (at shoulders) x 39 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is the upper half of a cast of the battered torso of a smaller-scale Roman copy of the Athena Parthenos, which was discovered on the Athenian Acropolis in 1860. Preserved here are the lowest part of Athena's neck, the upper part of her peplos and its kolpos, the rope-belt tied over the kolpos at the waist, and the goddess' weathered (in the original), scaly aegis. The original is missing its head, arms, and the lower parts of the calves and feet. In this cast the upper and lower parts of the body were produced separately.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
inv. 1362 - Bibliography:
- Neida Leipen, Athena Parthenos: A Reconstruction (Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1971), 6, no. 17, fig. 11
Rune Frederiksen and R. R. R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 2011), 156, no. C 78 - Related Work:
- Belongs with ID no. 368 (lower part).
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Athens, Acropolis 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.