Erechtheion
- Title
- Erechtheion
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- caryatid Caryatid Sculpture 407
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Greek(artist)
- Description
- Pentelic marble caryatid from the Erechtheion. This is one of six caryatids that held up the roof of the Erechtheion. She wears a peplos pinned on each shoulder. Her hair is braided and falls in a thick rope down her back. She probably held a sacrificial vessel in one of the missing hands. The figure strongly resembles the women of the east frieze of the Parthenon, which had just been completed when work on the Erechtheion began. She carries an architectural capital like a basket on her head. The weight she bears is taken on the right leg, encased in perpendicular folds. The other leg is flexed with the drapery moulded to it. --The British Museum Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Erechtheion, Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (site)
- Temporal
- ca. 415 BCE
- Subject
- Athens Erechtheion Greece I Athens and North Greece
- Style Period
- Classical
- Work Type
- sculpture (visual work)
- Date
- -0421/-0406
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_08473
- Item Locator
- Box 27, Section 10
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 2.28 m
- Material
- marble
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Id Current Repository
- 1816,0610.128