- Wikidata identifier:
- Q6940801
- Instance of:
- museum; university museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited Museum
- Accreditation number:
- 727
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q6940801/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Archaeology
Museum contains an outstanding collection of over 600 plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture. These include the Sunium Kouros c.600BC; Six archaic female statues (korai) from excavations on the Athenian Acropolis in the 1880s; a re-assembled cast of the ‘Rampin Horsemen’; Two pedimental groups from the 5th century temple of Zeus at Olympia and six metopes showing the Labours of Herakles from the same site; sculptured reliefs for the ‘Choregic monuments of Lysicrates’ in Athens; major pieces of Greek bronze sculpture; a collection of 60 Roman portrait busts from the 1st century BC.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC