East pediment of Parthenon
- Title
- East pediment of Parthenon
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Theseus and Fates The Parthenon Sculptures East Pediment
- Creator
- unknown Pheidias
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Greek (artist); Phidias (Greek designer, ca. 490-430 BCE)
- Description
- The East pediment showed the miraculous birth of the goddess Athena from the head of her father Zeus. Many of the figures from the central scene are now fragmentary or entirely lost. --The British Museum Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892; Jenkins, Ian, The Parthenon Frieze, London, BMP, 1994
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation) Parthenon, Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
- 438-432 BCE
- Subject
- Kouroi--Lycippus Parthenon Phidias Sculpture I
- Style Period
- Classical
- Work Type
- sculpture (visual work)
- Date
- -0438/-0432
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_03413
- Item Locator
- Box 8, Section 22-23
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- marble | painted
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
