Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze

• Reference:GB 1694 PC/016K
• Dates of Creation:19th century
• Physical Description:
  1 item

• Scope and Content

  Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. Figures bearing water jugs. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787. Original currently in the collection of the Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece.

• Acquisition Information

  Listed in 1964/5 inventory as located in the museum and passage ways of the Mackintosh Building (GSAA/GOV/7/5). Listed in first inventory of casts (GSAA/GOV/7/1) as of the Greek style, attributed to Phidias and purchased from Brucciani.

• Related Material

  GSAA/GOV/7/1; GSAA/GOV/7/5

• Additional Information

  Published

• Subjects

  Sculpture

  Teaching materials

  Casts (sculpture)

• Geographical Names

  Greece