Head from a statue of an Amazon

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This head is a plaster copy of an original (1805,0703.80) at The British Museum, London. The original marble was mounted on a modern socle and was 'brought from Rome to England by the late Mr Lyde Browne' (TY 12/3 Street Parlour 1). The type of bust has been associated with the Greek sculptor Polykleitos, carved around the 2nd Century. The head is one of several extant copies devived from a fifth-century BC Greek statue of a wounded Amazon leaning on a post, of which the best complete example, formerly in Lansdowne House, London, is now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is reputed to be derived from one of four statues that were said by Pliny to have been made competitively by Polykleitos, Pheidias, Kresilas, and Phradmon".- Text from The British Museum For a discussion of the types and the various attempted attributions, see Bothmer, Amazons, 216-22. For more information on the types of Amazon statues, see this Wikipedia article.   If you produce new work with the model and want to share it with us, drop us a line at web@smk.dk or stw@myminifactory.com. This scan was produced in collaboration between The Statens Museum for Kunst and Scan the World for the SMK-Open project. Every model produced from this initiative is available under an open source license. Scanner - Artec Eva