Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-197
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1923 B (original number), 8-5197 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), and 907 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of early Greek relief. From bronze fragments discovered at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV, Plate 39. Friederichs-Wolters 341. Subjects framed in square spaces: Prometheus Bound sits facing a missing eagle. A running Gorgon. Herakles in combat with Old Age personified as an ugly man. Herakles in combat with Halios Geron, the old man of the sea.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-197, described as Cast of early Greek relief. From bronze fragments discovered at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV, Plate 39. Friederichs-Wolters 341. Subjects framed in square spaces: Prometheus Bound sits facing a missing eagle. A running Gorgon. Herakles in combat with Old Age personified as an ugly man. Herakles in combat with Halios Geron, the old man of the sea.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-197, described as Cast of early Greek relief. From bronze fragments discovered at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV, Plate 39. Friederichs-Wolters 341. Subjects framed in square spaces: Prometheus Bound sits facing a missing eagle. A running Gorgon. Herakles in combat with Old Age personified as an ugly man. Herakles in combat with Halios Geron, the old man of the sea.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-197, described as Cast of early Greek relief. From bronze fragments discovered at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV, Plate 39. Friederichs-Wolters 341. Subjects framed in square spaces: Prometheus Bound sits facing a missing eagle. A running Gorgon. Herakles in combat with Old Age personified as an ugly man. Herakles in combat with Halios Geron, the old man of the sea.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-197, described as Cast of early Greek relief. From bronze fragments discovered at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV, Plate 39. Friederichs-Wolters 341. Subjects framed in square spaces: Prometheus Bound sits facing a missing eagle. A running Gorgon. Herakles in combat with Old Age personified as an ugly man. Herakles in combat with Halios Geron, the old man of the sea.

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