Parthenon frieze, North XLIV, figs. 122-124
- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, North XLIV, figs. 122-124
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (supervised by Phidias)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
447-432 BCE
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Athens, Greece (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0300
- Accession Number:
- probably Sage no. 161
31 carved in on top edge)
300 - File Name:
- CCC_0300.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 below
- Measurement:
- 102 x 123 x 5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a heavily damaged cast of North XLIV, depicting riders moving towards the viewer's left. Fig. 122 wears an alopeke (fox-skin cap) and bows his head as he rides. In this cast, his body is broken away from the neck down. The head of his horse is foregrounded against the drapery folds of fig. 121, who is partially contained in North XLIII and heavily damaged in the original. Fig. 123, follows fig. 122 and is foregrounded against him. His forward-looking head is damaged in this cast, and all but his lower left leg and foot, in boots, is broken away. Behind him, fig. 124 wears a sleeved chiton and boots and holds his horse's reins in his left hand. His head, mostly chipped or broken away in the original, is entirely missing here. The head of his horse is also missing in this cast. The head of the horse behind and overlapping fig. 124 looks groundward.
- 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), 101 - 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.