Argive Heraeum - male torso | Museum of Classical Archaeology Databases

Probably a soldier from a metope.

One of a large number of sculptural fragments from the temple, of which nothing else survives. Behind the figure’s left shoulder is a fragment of a shield, and we can also see the hand of his opponent, probably an Amazon. According to Pliny the gold and ivory cult statue of Hera in the temple was made by Polykleitos, a native of Argos

Number

202d

Material

Marble

Location of Original

Athens, National Museum 1561-1583

Size

0.53m

References

Waldstein: The Argive Heraeum I, pl. XXXIV
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, pl. 74.3
Kähler: Das Griechische Metopenbild (1949), 110, no.91, pl. 91

Date

c.420 BCE

Sculptor

Polykleitos (school of)

Provenance

Found on site of the Heraeum in the Argive Plain

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Argive Heraeum - male torso