Parthenon. East metope 11. Fragment

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ 5673

Artist

Pheidias' workshop

Category

Architectural sculpture

Period

Classical Period

Date

445-440 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.132 m
Length: 0.119 m
Width: 0.05 m

Material

Marble from Penteli

Location

Not on display

Description
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Right part of a male head, kept today in the Acropolis Museum storeroom.

The right eye and part of the forehead and the head with the messy hair are retained. Most likely the head belonged to one of the Giants presented on the east metopes of the Parthenon, perhaps the kneeling Giant whom Herakles defeats in east metope 11 (Ακρ. 20010).

Δεσπίνης, Γ., Παρθενώνεια, Αθήνα, 1982, σελ. 1-3, πίν. 1.1-2