Zeus Otricoli
- Title:
- Zeus Otricoli
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 2nd-3rd c. CE (Roman copy)
4th c. BCE (Greek original)
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Otricoli, Italy (discovery site, 1775) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Otricoli, Italy (discovery site, 1775) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0260
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 201
201 on front
260 - File Name:
- CCC_0260.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 58 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek late Classical or Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
busts (sculpture) - Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Zeus (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 110 x 58 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- This is a cast of an over life-sized bust of Zeus discovered at Otricoli (Ocriculum), Italy in the 18th c. and housed in the Vatican. The god has a full, bushy head of curly hair and a full, bush, curly beard. His brow is furrowed, his nose is broad, and his lips are full. He is represented with large indentations at the temples. Drapery falls from the left (proper) shoulder of the modern bust. The head is likely to have been copied in Roman times from an earlier, full statue of Zeus. The work was restored in the 18th c.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Pio Clementino no. 257 - Bibliography:
- http://arachne.uni-koeln.de, no. 21092
Walter Amelung and Heinrich Holtzinger, The Museums and Ruins of Rome, vol. I (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1906), 109, fig. 59
on the site of Ocriculum, see: Sophie Hay, Simon Keay, and Martin Millett, Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria): An Archaeological Survey of the Roman Town (London: British School at Rome, 2013) - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Vatican Museums (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.