Inscription (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-219
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000219
Alternate number:
2003 (original number), 8-5219 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), 967 (original number), and IvO 164
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Object count:
1
Description:
Cast of Greek inscription with a dedication of his statue by the athlete Xenokles, ca. 400-380 BCE. In two lines at right angles to one another. From a marble original at Olympia, Greece, wrongly listed as a bronze one in the sale catalogue of the Berlin Royal Museum’s cast works, and hence absurdly bronzed. Consult Ernst Curtins, Archaeologische Zeitung 1878. Friederichs-Wolters 410. Olympia V, 164.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Culture or time period:
Ancient Greece
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Materials:
Plaster
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Inscriptions
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Inscription (reproduction), accession number 21-219, described as Cast of Greek inscription with a dedication of his statue by the athlete Xenokles, ca. 400-380 BCE. In two lines at right angles to one another. From a marble original at Olympia, Greece, wrongly listed as a bronze one in the sale catalogue of the Berlin Royal Museum’s cast works, and hence absurdly bronzed. Consult Ernst Curtins, Archaeologische Zeitung 1878. Friederichs-Wolters 410. Olympia V, 164.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Inscription (reproduction), accession number 21-219, described as Cast of Greek inscription with a dedication of his statue by the athlete Xenokles, ca. 400-380 BCE. In two lines at right angles to one another. From a marble original at Olympia, Greece, wrongly listed as a bronze one in the sale catalogue of the Berlin Royal Museum’s cast works, and hence absurdly bronzed. Consult Ernst Curtins, Archaeologische Zeitung 1878. Friederichs-Wolters 410. Olympia V, 164.

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