Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-114
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1802 (original number), 496/497 (original number), and 8-5114 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Richard Gruttner’s model of the Victory by Paionios at Olympiam miniature restoration, scale 1:5; height 2.31 meters. After the original statue of Perian marble discovered at Olympia by German Expedition in 1875, December 221, parts of its prismatic pedestal December 20. Museum of Olympia. The sculpture signs: ¬AIONIO?E¬OIH?EMEN?AIO? | KAITAKPONE¬ITONNAONENIKA Paionios of Mende (Thrace) sculpsit. He also won a victory with his finials for the temple. The dedication reads: ME??ANIOIKAINAY¬AKTIOIANEøEN?II | O^VM¬IOI?EKATANA¬OTOM¬O^EMION Messenians and Naupaktians to Leus, a trophy tithe of their booty taken in war. Ol V 259. Other parts of both statues found later than December 21, 1875. The eagle's head, taken then for a tortoise by some of the staff, was found on the day of my first visit to Olympia in April 1876. Only the crown of the head is extant. Amelung, however, has identified a herma of the same subject in Rome. The pedestal was over 6 meters high. The pedestal, there, is abbreviated to a few sections. At Delphi, similar triangular prisms of a tall pedestal lie about, and it is quite possible they belonged to a duplicate, there, of our statue, perhaps a bronze one. The terraced site of Delphi required tall pedestals, the flat Altis at Olympia did not. Delphi has several other tall monuments, ee. g. the bid Sphinx on a column, the Thysiades of Callimachos with their acanthus tree, etc.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the Royal Museum, Berlin
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute)
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-114, described as Cast of Richard Gruttner’s model of the Victory by Paionios at Olympiam miniature restoration, scale 1:5; height 2.31 meters. After the original statue of Perian marble discovered at Olympia by German Expedition in 1875, December 221, parts of its prismatic pedestal December 20. Museum of Olympia. The sculpture signs: ¬AIONIO?E¬OIH?EMEN?AIO? | KAITAKPONE¬ITONNAONENIKA Paionios of Mende (Thrace) sculpsit. He also won a victory with his finials for the temple. The dedication reads: ME??ANIOIKAINAY¬AKTIOIANEøEN?II | O^VM¬IOI?EKATANA¬OTOM¬O^EMION Messenians and Naupaktians to Leus, a trophy tithe of their booty taken in war. Ol V 259. Other parts of both statues found later than December 21, 1875. The eagle's head, taken then for a tortoise by some of the staff, was found on the day of my first visit to Olympia in April 1876. Only the crown of the head is extant. Amelung, however, has identified a herma of the same subject in Rome. The pedestal was over 6 meters high. The pedestal, there, is abbreviated to a few sections. At Delphi, similar triangular prisms of a tall pedestal lie about, and it is quite possible they belonged to a duplicate, there, of our statue, perhaps a bronze one. The terraced site of Delphi required tall pedestals, the flat Altis at Olympia did not. Delphi has several other tall monuments, ee. g. the bid Sphinx on a column, the Thysiades of Callimachos with their acanthus tree, etc.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-114, described as Cast of Richard Gruttner’s model of the Victory by Paionios at Olympiam miniature restoration, scale 1:5; height 2.31 meters. After the original statue of Perian marble discovered at Olympia by German Expedition in 1875, December 221, parts of its prismatic pedestal December 20. Museum of Olympia. The sculpture signs: ¬AIONIO?E¬OIH?EMEN?AIO? | KAITAKPONE¬ITONNAONENIKA Paionios of Mende (Thrace) sculpsit. He also won a victory with his finials for the temple. The dedication reads: ME??ANIOIKAINAY¬AKTIOIANEøEN?II | O^VM¬IOI?EKATANA¬OTOM¬O^EMION Messenians and Naupaktians to Leus, a trophy tithe of their booty taken in war. Ol V 259. Other parts of both statues found later than December 21, 1875. The eagle's head, taken then for a tortoise by some of the staff, was found on the day of my first visit to Olympia in April 1876. Only the crown of the head is extant. Amelung, however, has identified a herma of the same subject in Rome. The pedestal was over 6 meters high. The pedestal, there, is abbreviated to a few sections. At Delphi, similar triangular prisms of a tall pedestal lie about, and it is quite possible they belonged to a duplicate, there, of our statue, perhaps a bronze one. The terraced site of Delphi required tall pedestals, the flat Altis at Olympia did not. Delphi has several other tall monuments, ee. g. the bid Sphinx on a column, the Thysiades of Callimachos with their acanthus tree, etc.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-114, described as Cast of Richard Gruttner’s model of the Victory by Paionios at Olympiam miniature restoration, scale 1:5; height 2.31 meters. After the original statue of Perian marble discovered at Olympia by German Expedition in 1875, December 221, parts of its prismatic pedestal December 20. Museum of Olympia. The sculpture signs: ¬AIONIO?E¬OIH?EMEN?AIO? | KAITAKPONE¬ITONNAONENIKA Paionios of Mende (Thrace) sculpsit. He also won a victory with his finials for the temple. The dedication reads: ME??ANIOIKAINAY¬AKTIOIANEøEN?II | O^VM¬IOI?EKATANA¬OTOM¬O^EMION Messenians and Naupaktians to Leus, a trophy tithe of their booty taken in war. Ol V 259. Other parts of both statues found later than December 21, 1875. The eagle's head, taken then for a tortoise by some of the staff, was found on the day of my first visit to Olympia in April 1876. Only the crown of the head is extant. Amelung, however, has identified a herma of the same subject in Rome. The pedestal was over 6 meters high. The pedestal, there, is abbreviated to a few sections. At Delphi, similar triangular prisms of a tall pedestal lie about, and it is quite possible they belonged to a duplicate, there, of our statue, perhaps a bronze one. The terraced site of Delphi required tall pedestals, the flat Altis at Olympia did not. Delphi has several other tall monuments, ee. g. the bid Sphinx on a column, the Thysiades of Callimachos with their acanthus tree, etc.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-114, described as Cast of Richard Gruttner’s model of the Victory by Paionios at Olympiam miniature restoration, scale 1:5; height 2.31 meters. After the original statue of Perian marble discovered at Olympia by German Expedition in 1875, December 221, parts of its prismatic pedestal December 20. Museum of Olympia. The sculpture signs: ¬AIONIO?E¬OIH?EMEN?AIO? | KAITAKPONE¬ITONNAONENIKA Paionios of Mende (Thrace) sculpsit. He also won a victory with his finials for the temple. The dedication reads: ME??ANIOIKAINAY¬AKTIOIANEøEN?II | O^VM¬IOI?EKATANA¬OTOM¬O^EMION Messenians and Naupaktians to Leus, a trophy tithe of their booty taken in war. Ol V 259. Other parts of both statues found later than December 21, 1875. The eagle's head, taken then for a tortoise by some of the staff, was found on the day of my first visit to Olympia in April 1876. Only the crown of the head is extant. Amelung, however, has identified a herma of the same subject in Rome. The pedestal was over 6 meters high. The pedestal, there, is abbreviated to a few sections. At Delphi, similar triangular prisms of a tall pedestal lie about, and it is quite possible they belonged to a duplicate, there, of our statue, perhaps a bronze one. The terraced site of Delphi required tall pedestals, the flat Altis at Olympia did not. Delphi has several other tall monuments, ee. g. the bid Sphinx on a column, the Thysiades of Callimachos with their acanthus tree, etc.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-114, described as Cast of Richard Gruttner’s model of the Victory by Paionios at Olympiam miniature restoration, scale 1:5; height 2.31 meters. After the original statue of Perian marble discovered at Olympia by German Expedition in 1875, December 221, parts of its prismatic pedestal December 20. Museum of Olympia. The sculpture signs: ¬AIONIO?E¬OIH?EMEN?AIO? | KAITAKPONE¬ITONNAONENIKA Paionios of Mende (Thrace) sculpsit. He also won a victory with his finials for the temple. The dedication reads: ME??ANIOIKAINAY¬AKTIOIANEøEN?II | O^VM¬IOI?EKATANA¬OTOM¬O^EMION Messenians and Naupaktians to Leus, a trophy tithe of their booty taken in war. Ol V 259. Other parts of both statues found later than December 21, 1875. The eagle's head, taken then for a tortoise by some of the staff, was found on the day of my first visit to Olympia in April 1876. Only the crown of the head is extant. Amelung, however, has identified a herma of the same subject in Rome. The pedestal was over 6 meters high. The pedestal, there, is abbreviated to a few sections. At Delphi, similar triangular prisms of a tall pedestal lie about, and it is quite possible they belonged to a duplicate, there, of our statue, perhaps a bronze one. The terraced site of Delphi required tall pedestals, the flat Altis at Olympia did not. Delphi has several other tall monuments, ee. g. the bid Sphinx on a column, the Thysiades of Callimachos with their acanthus tree, etc.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-114, described as Cast of Richard Gruttner’s model of the Victory by Paionios at Olympiam miniature restoration, scale 1:5; height 2.31 meters. After the original statue of Perian marble discovered at Olympia by German Expedition in 1875, December 221, parts of its prismatic pedestal December 20. Museum of Olympia. The sculpture signs: ¬AIONIO?E¬OIH?EMEN?AIO? | KAITAKPONE¬ITONNAONENIKA Paionios of Mende (Thrace) sculpsit. He also won a victory with his finials for the temple. The dedication reads: ME??ANIOIKAINAY¬AKTIOIANEøEN?II | O^VM¬IOI?EKATANA¬OTOM¬O^EMION Messenians and Naupaktians to Leus, a trophy tithe of their booty taken in war. Ol V 259. Other parts of both statues found later than December 21, 1875. The eagle's head, taken then for a tortoise by some of the staff, was found on the day of my first visit to Olympia in April 1876. Only the crown of the head is extant. Amelung, however, has identified a herma of the same subject in Rome. The pedestal was over 6 meters high. The pedestal, there, is abbreviated to a few sections. At Delphi, similar triangular prisms of a tall pedestal lie about, and it is quite possible they belonged to a duplicate, there, of our statue, perhaps a bronze one. The terraced site of Delphi required tall pedestals, the flat Altis at Olympia did not. Delphi has several other tall monuments, ee. g. the bid Sphinx on a column, the Thysiades of Callimachos with their acanthus tree, etc.

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