Parthenon frieze, East VII, figs. 53-56
- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, East VII, figs. 53-56
- 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_0041
- Accession Number:
- probably Sage no. 161
100 (?, carved in front)
E 7, 1.00 (pen upper rim)
41 - File Name:
- CCC_0041.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 - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 103 x 99 x 5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a well-preserved cast of a section of East VII showing four women facing towards the viewer's left, each heavily draped in peplos and himation. Figs. 53 and 54 are shown in three-quarter view, with the latter overlapping the former. Their heads are missing from the chin up (here and in the original). These two figures are frequently identified as ergastinai, the women charged with weaving the peplos for Athena. Fig. 55 is separated from the figures in front of and behind her by a small gap. She, too, is shown in a three-quarter pose, with her head (complete here) in profile. In her lowered right hand she holds a phiale. Fig. 56 faces front but apparently turned her now-missing (here and in the original) head to look behind her. East VII underwent restorations ca. 1820, which included significant recutting of the the stone. In the current state of the original of this block, the top of fig. 55's head is missing. In this cast, her head is complete. The cast, then, probably preserves one of the 19th century restorations of the block.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
inventory no. MR 825 - Bibliography:
- www.parthenonfrieze.gr
www.learn.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/main.htm
http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/plaque-ergastines
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 99
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), 81 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Louvre (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.