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Plaster Cast: The Discobolos after Myron, Discus Thrower

1912.02.0002

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Artifact Identification Plaster Cast: The Discobolos after Myron, Discus Thrower   (1912.02.0002)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Art
    3. :
  3. N/A
Artist/Maker Original sculptor: Myron of Eleutherae (a village bordering Attica and Boeotia in Greece)
Geographic Location
Period Classical Period
Date 450 BCE
Culture Greek
Location On Exhibitin the Ancient Mediterranean exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 172.8 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 104.0 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 49.8 cm
Weight waived g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Plaster
Manufacturing Processes Cast

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

"Archeological Museum is Opened in Lincoln Hall," 1912P.0002.

"An Olympic Odyssey," Heritage, Spring 1994, p. 1.

P. P. Caproni & Brother. Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions.... Boston: P. P. Caproni & Brother, 1911, p. 13, no. 511.

C. Picard: Manuel, La Sculp., II, p. 225-32; 895.
W. Helbig: Fuhrer, I, no. 326 (cf. fragm. no. 788).
Friederichs-Wolters: Gipsabgusse, no. 451.
M. Collignon: Hist. Sculp. Gr., I, p. 472-4.
G. Richter: Sculp. and Sculptors, p. 41; 205-7. For composite cast considered best restoration of orig., cf. fig.578.
E. v.Mach: Hdbk. G.R. Sculp., and Univ. Prints, pl. 62 + 63, p. 68-70.
H. Lechat: Phidias, p. 44-6; 181.
P. Devambez: Sculp. Grecque, p. 41.
A. Lawrence: Cl. Sculp., p. 180.
E. Gardner: Hdbk. Greek Sculp., p. 266-8, fig. 63.
Record Book, p. 47:

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Classical Museum Purchase
Reproduction yes, Original made at Elutherae, Greece. Plaster reproduction of Roman marble copy of Greek bronze original found in Rome in 1761 near the ruins of the castellum or reservoir of the Aqua Julia built by Septimius Severus now in the Vatican, manufactured by P. P. Caproni & Brother, Boston, 1912.

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