Object class: Figure- and animal-derived motifs / Collection place: Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany / Donor: Alfred Emerson - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of bronze plaque, accession number 21-198, described as Cast of small early Greek relief. From a small bronze plaque found at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV Plate 39. Freiderichs-Wolters 345. Subject: the rage of Kassandra (Cassandra). Ajax, full-armed, seizes the Trojan princess, who clings, kneeling, to a statue of Athena. Relief features Homeric epic scene.

Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-143, described as Cast of Athena. From a bronze statuette found on the Akropolis of Athens, preserved in the Royal Antiquarium, Berlin. Compare Archaeologische Zeitung 1873, Plate 10.

Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-134, described as Cast of statuette of Apollo. From an original bronze found in Greece, and preserved in the Royal Antiquarium of Berlin. Compare Obervbeck, Kunstmythologie, Apollo, Figure 7.

Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-228, described as Hermes (Latin: Mercury) with the infant Dionysos. From a bronze statuette preserved in the Louvre National Museum, Paris. Consult Journal of Hellenic Studies III 107. The work is a free copy of the group by Praxiteles at Olympia.