Parthenon frieze, South XLI, figs. 122-125
- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, South XLI, figs. 122-125
- 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_0033
- Accession Number:
- probably Sage no. 161
South 41 (open on upper rim)
122 (pen on upper rim)
33 - File Name:
- CCC_0033.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
Cattle - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 104.1 x 121.9 x 5.1 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a well-preserved cast of South XLI, a battered original, depicting four herdsmen escorting bulls towards the viewer's right. Fig. 122 is badly damaged (in the original) and is preserved in his frontal right shoulder and his lower drapery and feet, in profile. He is overlapped by a calmly processing bull whose back, neck, and head follow a horizontal line. The foregrounded fig. 123, in himation, walks along the bull's right flank. His head is preserved in outline (in the original). He bends his arms up to hold the bull's restraints and he extends his left leg to step forward. Fig. 124 is missing his head (in the original) and is wrapped in a himation from the neck down. Much of his body is obscured by the overlapping bull. Fig. 125, also fully wrapped in his himation, is missing his head (in the original) and is shown in three-quarter view. He walks along the right flank of a second bull on the block. The animal's underside is visible below and in the background of the head of the first bull.
- 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), 95
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), 71 - 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.