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Description: | 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 1880's; 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 to the 4th century AD and
the 'Farnese Hercules'
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Department of Plant Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge Cambridgeshire United Kingdom,
CB2 3EA | FAX: | 01223 333 953 | Telephone: | 01223 333 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6425 | Go to resource |
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