Statuette (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-94
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000094
Alternate number:
8-5094 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.158 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Apollo Sauroktonos, after Paraxiteles of Athens, flourished 364 (or 310) to 330 B. C. The statue of Apollo Lizardslayer is mentioned in Pliny and Martial. The last called it a Corinthian bronze, perhaps a miniature copy like this. From a bronze statuette excavated in one of his Aventine vineyards by Cardinal Alessandro Albani. Billa Albani, Rome.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the Louvre Museum, Paris
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute)
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-94, described as Cast of Apollo Sauroktonos, after Paraxiteles of Athens, flourished 364 (or 310) to 330 B. C. The statue of Apollo Lizardslayer is mentioned in Pliny and Martial. The last called it a Corinthian bronze, perhaps a miniature copy like this. From a bronze statuette excavated in one of his Aventine vineyards by Cardinal Alessandro Albani. Billa Albani, Rome.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-94, described as Cast of Apollo Sauroktonos, after Paraxiteles of Athens, flourished 364 (or 310) to 330 B. C. The statue of Apollo Lizardslayer is mentioned in Pliny and Martial. The last called it a Corinthian bronze, perhaps a miniature copy like this. From a bronze statuette excavated in one of his Aventine vineyards by Cardinal Alessandro Albani. Billa Albani, Rome.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-94, described as Cast of Apollo Sauroktonos, after Paraxiteles of Athens, flourished 364 (or 310) to 330 B. C. The statue of Apollo Lizardslayer is mentioned in Pliny and Martial. The last called it a Corinthian bronze, perhaps a miniature copy like this. From a bronze statuette excavated in one of his Aventine vineyards by Cardinal Alessandro Albani. Billa Albani, Rome.

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