Parthenon frieze, North XLI, figs. 112-114
- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, North XLI, figs. 112-114
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (supervised by Phidias)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
447-432 BCE
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Athens, Greece (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0005
- Accession Number:
- possibly Sage no. 161
161 (sticker front)
5 - File Name:
- CCC_0005.tif
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- High Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble bas-relief (sculpture technique) (original) - Subject:
- Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Processions, Religious
Panathenaia
Equestrians - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 112 x 122 x 4 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a well-preserved cast of North XLI, showing three horsemen riding to the viewer's left. The extant portions of this block have been cast together as one here. Fig. 112, a horseman depicted in profile, wears a chiton, chlamys, and alopeke (fox-skin cap), and looks ahead. Overlapping him from behind is the head of the open-mouthed horse ridden by fig. 113. Fig. 113 is nude but for the chlamys fastened around his neck. His head is missing in the original and he turns his torso into a three-quarter pose to look behind him. The following rider, fig. 114, also wears a chlamys and turns to look behind him. Most of his head, shown in three-quarter view, his frontally posed left shoulder and upper arm, and his left leg are visible from behind the front half of the horse of the following rider, fig. 115. Fig. 114's horse is partially obscured by the overlapping figs. 113 and 115 and their horses. This block also contains the left leg and hand of fig. 115, the extant remainder of whom is contained in North XLII.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
- Bibliography:
- www.parthenonfrieze.gr
www.learn.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/main.htm
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 97
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), 99-100
Ian Jenkins, "The Parthenon Frieze and Perikles' Cavalry of a Thousand," in Periklean Athens and its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives, eds. J. M. Barringer and J. M. Hurwit (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), 147-161 - Related Work:
- See ID nos. 40 and 591, which, together, duplicate this cast.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
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.