Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-69
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
8-5069 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Object count:
1
Description:
Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the National Museum, Athens
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Person depicted:
Plato
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-69, described as Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-69, described as Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-69, described as Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-69, described as Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-69, described as Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-69, described as Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-69, described as Cast of head of Plato. From a marble in the Museum of Aix, France. Presumably found in Aix. Few of the heads called Plato are true portraits. The identity of his features was probably uncertain in later Antiquity, A bearded Dionysos from Herculaneum in the Naples Museum is popularly called Plato. Helbig identified a good portrait in the house of Pirro Ligorio, Rome, by the aid of a mutilated head in Berlin which has the inscription [drawn symbol]

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