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Eubouleus

Eubouleus was a minor deity of the underworld, popular in Eleusis. From literary sources Praxiteles is known to have made a sculpture of Eubouleus. For many years this piece was believed to be the original. It is now thought more likely to be a Roman copy from the second century BCE, as it shows little difference from a number of other Roman copies, and the inscription found with it, identifying the head as Eubouleus, is Roman

Number: 
248
Material: 
Marble
Location of Original: 

Athens, National Museum 181

Size: 
0.49m
References: 

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 241(n.2), pl. 90.1
Papaspiridi: Guide du Musée Nationale d’Athènes (1927), 50
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), fig.512
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), fig.511 (for Roman copy at Athens, NM 1839)
Lawrence: Later Greek Sculpture (1927), 97, appendix

Date: 
Second century BCE. Original: fourth century BCE
Sculptor: 
Of original: Praxiteles (?)
Provenance: 

Found at Eleusis

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