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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Greek, Severe Style (original)
Title:Cast of The Exaltation of the Flower
Date Made:ca. 1900 CE
Type:Cast
Materials:Replica; plaster
Place Made:Greece, Thessaly, Pharsalos (original)
Measurements:overall: 24 x 26 x 4 in.; 60.96 x 66.04 x 10.16 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1.B.OIV
Credit Line:Source and date of acquisition unknown
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Description:
ca. late 19th or early 20th century plaster cast of an Parian marble original dating to the Classical Period, ca. 450 BCE. Two women are depicted either sitting or standing face-to-face; they hold flowers other unidentified objects aloft. Both wear a type of dress called a peplos and a type of hairnet called a kekryphalos. The original stele fragment from which this cast is made is located at the Louvre in Paris, France.
Provenience: Pharsalos, Thessaly, Greece (original)

Tags:
ancient; archaeology

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