Euripides statuette
- Title:
- Euripides statuette
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
1st-2nd c. CE
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Esquiline Hill, Rome, Italy (discovery site, early 18th c.) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Esquiline Hill, Rome, Italy (discovery site, early 18th c.) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0255
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 305
705
305 in front of plinth
255 - File Name:
- CCC_0255.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 60 (H) x 45 (W) x 36 (D) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, perhaps after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
statuettes (free-standing sculpture) - Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Euripides
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 59 x 45 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a marble seated statuette of Euripides in the Louvre. The tragic poet is seated on a backed chair with his head turned slightly to his left and his left foot advanced. Euripides' bare torso is muscular and he is draped in a himation from the waist to the ankles with a corner of the drapery resting on the top of his left shoulder. He wears sandals. Titles of Euripides' plays are inscribed on the background slab. The head of the original is completely restored (from the bust in Naples, no. 6135), as is the the lower part of the background slab. Restored arms have subsequently been removed from the original. This cast was made with the restored arms
they have been broken off of the cast but are preserved. - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. Ma 343 - Bibliography:
- Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 133-140, esp. 137 no. II a, figs. 760-761
- Related Work:
- The head of the original of this work was restored from Naples, National Archaeological Museum no. 6135
see ID no. 717. - 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.