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Sculpture | Greece
501. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Athena and Marsyas.
Metope from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
502. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Athena.
Detail of metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
503. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Apollo.
West pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
504. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Apollo.
West pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
505. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles, Athena, and Atlas.
Metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Marble. 460s BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
506. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Athena.
Detail of metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Heracles, Athena, and Atlas).
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
507. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Heracles.
Detail of metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Heracles, Athena, and Atlas).
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
508. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Themistocles.
Marble.
1st—2nd cent. CE after an original of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 85.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
509. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Athena with attic helmet.
Head in Parian marble, body in Pentelic marble.
2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 1399.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
510. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Athena with attic helmet.
Head in Parian marble, body in Pentelic marble.
2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 1399.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
511. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Athena with attic helmet.
Head in Parian marble, body in Pentelic marble.
2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 1399.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
512. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Cornice with a gutter (sima) and channelout in the form of a lion’s head.
Sandstone.
510 BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
513. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Helen and Andromache with the infant Astyanax mourning the death of Hector.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
514. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles and the Cercopes.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
515. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles bringing the Erymanthian Boar to King Eurystheus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
516. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles kills Alcyoneus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
517. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Laodamia keeps Clytemnestra hastening to the aid to Aegisthus and ready to kill the son Orestes.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
518. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Orestes kills Aegisthus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
519. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Punishment of Sisyphus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
520. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
So-called Nereids.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.