Plaster cast

Museum number:

21-245

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Alternate number:

8-5245 (previous museum number (recataloged from))

Accession number:

Acc.153 and Acc.193

Description:

Cast of a Flying Victory about half life size from a corner of a temple in the sanctuary of Asklepios near Epidauros, Greece, where is served as a finial (akroterion). the goddess touches the ground with her left foot. she wears a tunic with the right shoulder and breast bare, and her right leg out. the tunic has an overlap and is belted over it. there are mortises on the shoulders for the attachment of wings. a socket in the crown with lead in it, was the mortise of a metal hat.

Donor:

Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece

Verbatim coll. place:

Cast Works of the National Museum, Athens

Collector:

Alfred Emerson

Collection date:

ca. 1904

Object type:

archaeology

Accession date:

1904 and 1905

Department:

Casts and molds