Plaster Cast Of Head Of Discus Thrower
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: E F. Arrondelle
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Cast of marble copy in Rome."
label: Notes
content: Old exhibit label with artifact identifies it as "Head of a Discus Thrower (Also called "Head of Hermes." Cast of a marble copy in the Lancalotti Palace, Rome."
label: Notes
content: This is a cast of the head of the so called Discobolus Palombara or Lancellotti. The figure is a 1st-century AD Roman copy in marble after Myron's Greek bronze original sculpture of the discus thrower. The marble figure was found in 1781 on the Roman property of the Massimo family, the Villa Palombara on the Esquiline Hill. It is now in the National Museum of Rome.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rome, Latium, Italy, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Roman
label: Culture
content: Greek, Classic
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042435
label: USNM Number
content: A229760-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast