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  Photo of Caryatid statue
  • Plaster cast: Height: 2.43m.
  • Copy of a marble caryatid.
    The caryatid:
  • is one of the six supporting the roof of the south porch of the Erechtheion at Athens.
  • was made about 420-410 BC.
  • is now in London, British Museum, 407.

Text: Copyright (c) Beazley Archive 1997 - 2002
Images: Copyright (c) Ashmolean Museum

 

Original artwork by Claire Murphy