Anta capital from the Erechtheion
- Title:
- Anta capital from the Erechtheion
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- 421-405 BCE
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (original)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room 122), Cornell University
Athens, Greece (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0736
- Accession Number:
- 288
- File Name:
- CCC_0736.tif
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in relief (original) - Subject:
- Erechtheion (Athens, Greece)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 51 x 90 x 15 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of an ornately decorated anta capital from the Erechtheion. From the bottom it consists of a palmette scroll, a bead-and-reel course, an egg-and-dart course, another bead-and-reel course, and a leaf-and-dart course. These decorative motifs are topped by a molding. This piece perhaps once belonged to the architectural cast collection originally housed in Lincoln Hall.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 1816,0610.253 - Bibliography:
- A. W. Lawrence, Greek Architecture, 5th ed. (New Yaven: Yale University Press, 1996)
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 196 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Athens, Erechtheion or London, British Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.