Title:
Upper part of a caryatid
Maker:
Unknown
Category:
architectural element
Name:
caryatid
Date:
circa 50 B.C.
Period:
Early Roman
Description:
caryatid
Production
Place:
Greece, Attica
Production
Place (legacy):
Attica, production, region
Production
Note:
carved
Find Spot:
Eleusis
Material:
marble (Pentelic)
Dimension:
height, 2.09, m
Acquisition:
given; 1865; Clarke, E.D., Professor
Documentation:
, The Fitzwilliam Museum1982. Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum.Cambridge (Cambs.): Pevensey Pressp. 196
Michaelis, Adolf. 1882. Ancient marbles in Great Britain.
242 no. 1
Bracken, C.P.. 1975. Antiquities acquired : the spoliation of Greece.
85
Budde, Ludwig. Nicholls, Richard V.. 1967. Catalogue of the Greek and Roman sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
no. 81, pls. 24-25
Ginner, P. 1960. Gateway to the dance.
124
Vassilika, E.. 1998. Greek and Roman Art.
p.96-97, no.46
Clarke, E.D.. 1809. Greek marbles brought from the shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean and deposited in the vestibule of the public library of the University of Cambridge.
12-37, no. 14
St.Clair, L.. 1967. Lord Elgin and the marbles.
105-107
Fermor, P.Leigh. 1958. Mani.
179-180
Lawson, J.C.. 1910. Modern Greek folklore and ancient Greek religion.
179-180
Beard, M.. Henderson, J.. Pearce, S. (ed.). 1994. 'Please Don't Touch the Ceiling'.
Source Title: Museums and the Appropriation of Culture()
fig. 1 and pp.11-12
Lloyd-Morgan, G.. 1990. Caryatids and other Supporters.
Source Title: from Henig, ed., Architecture and Architectural Sculpture in the Roman Empire()
143-151
Harrison, Evelyn B.. Review of Budde & Nicolls.
Source Title: Art Bulletin(September-1968)
p. 285
Accession:
Object Number: GR.1.1865
(Antiquities)
(record id: 65755; input: 2003-03-25; modified: 2012-05-11)
Permanent
Identifier:
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