Provenance Ex-American private collection, collected in 1980’s-1990’s.
Notes The stone was analyzed by the laboratory of the Geneva Museum of Natu ral History using the method of cathodoluminescence.
1
For the pediments on the Acropolis, see SCHRADER H., Die archaischen Marmorbildwerken der Akropolis, Mayence/Rhin, 1969, pp. 377-388 and STEWART A., Greek Sculpture, An Exploration, New Haven - London, 1990, fig. 69-72; the other fragments from the Acropolis are in SCHRADER H., op. cit., pp. 255-256, n. 379, fig. 299-300; for the statue of Samos FREYER-SCHAUENBURG B., Samos XI, Bildwerken der archaischen Zeit und des strengen Stils, Bonn, 1974, pp. 169-170, n. 85, pl. 71; for the statue in gold and silver from Delphi, see AMANDRY P., Statue de taureau en argent dans Etudes delphiques, Bulletin de Correspondance hellénique, Supplément IV, 1977, pp. 272-293.
2
DE LA COSTE MESSELIÈRE P., Fouilles de Delphes, IV, 4, Sculptures du trésor des Athéniens, Paris, 1957, pl. 19-20, pl. 22-26 (Theseus), pl. 68 (Heracles); ASHMOLE B. - YALOURIS N., Olympia: The Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus, London, 1967, fig. 162, fig. 165-166; BROMMER F., Der Parthenonfries, Katalog und Untersuchung, Mayence/Rhin, 1977, pl. 52-53, 155, 159.
3
There exist a group of works by Myron representing the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur that were erected on the Acropolis and that continue to be known today through Roman copies: KALTSAS N., Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum Athens, Athens, 2002, pp. 96-97, n. 169.
4
La cité des images, Religion et société en Grèce antique, Lausanne - Paris, 1984, pp. 48, fig. 73.
5
KNIGGE U., Der Kerameikos von Athen, Führung durch Ausgrabungen und Geschichte, Athens, 1988, pp. 122-126. Contrary to the hypothesis of a very important funerary monument from the early 5th century, see RICHTER G.M.A., Archaic Gravestone of Attica, London, 1961, pp. 53-55.
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