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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-61.2, described as (top half; 3 parts)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-246.5, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-265, described as Cast of left side of Throne (?) of marble; from a marble in the Museo Boncampagni (Tudovisi), Rome. Found in 1887 in the Gardens of Sallust at Rome. The scene on the back is generally considered to represent the birth of Aphrodite (Latin: Venus), who is attended by two Horae, while the figures on the armpieces have to do with the cult of the goddess, one on right burning incense, the other playing the double flute. For another interpretation see Helbig no. 892. Compare with Lanciani, Ruins and Excavation, page 414. The work is assigned to the 5th Century.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-20, described as Cast of head of Hypnos, Fourth Century B.C. From a bronze found at Civitella d’Arno, 1855. Terracotta. British Museum, London. Compare Friederichs-Wolters 1288. Agrees with a statue in Madrid, same handbook 1287.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-96, described as Cast of head of Tiberius wearing the civic crown of oakleaves. From a bronze in the Louvre Museum, Paris
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-128, described as Cast of head of a horse. From a bronze, formerly in Palazzo Ricardi, now in the Royal Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Antique, and a fragment, probably, of an equestrian figure or more probably still of a quadriga. The collar and the plugging of the holes where a bridle was attached are a Renaissance restoration.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-147, described as Cast of Etruscan Goddess From a bronze in the Berlin Antiquarium with an inscription. Compare Mincali, Monumenti Plate 33.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-9, described as So-called “Sulla” portrait head of an unknown subject, also called “Pompey”. Original marble in Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Terracotta.” Remarks: “So the Manifattura di Signa. But its imperial busts may be after originals elsewhere.”
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-111, described as Cast of head of a Venus (Greek: Aphrodite). From a marble in Palazzo Caetani, Rome. A cast of it was procured by Professor F. Von Duhn of Heidelberg, on the occasion of the owner’s permission to separate head and foot for the purpose of reading the Greek inscription underneath. The center of is was found missing. Donna Esilia Lovatelli, author of numerous able essays on archaeological subjects, is a scion of this princely house. Accession marks: BT 1292, R+T 1595 (variant) entered under last not bonded, duty paid $1.20.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-192, described as Cast of winner of a race in armor, otherwise described as a combatant charioteer, and as Amphiaraos. From a celebrated bronze of the Tux Cabinet in Tubingen. Style of the 5th Century, B. C. Compare Kalkmaun in Jahrbruh des Archaeologiischen Instituts.

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