Head from a statue of an Amazon

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This bust is a plaster replica of an original from 1805,0703.80 at The British Museum in London. The original marble was mounted on a modern base and was brought from Rome to England by the late Mr Lyde Browne (TY 12/3 Street Parlour 1). This type of bust has been linked to the Greek sculptor Polykleitos, created around the 2nd Century. The head is one of several existing copies derived from a fifth-century BC Greek statue of a wounded Amazon leaning on a post, with the best complete example formerly in Lansdowne House, London, now housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is believed to be copied from one of four statues said by Pliny to have been made competitively by Polykleitos, Pheidias, Kresilas, and Phradmon. For a discussion of the types and various attempted attributions, see Bothmer, Amazons, 216-22. For more information on Amazon statue types, consult this Wikipedia article. The bust was produced in collaboration between The Statens Museum for Kunst and Scan the World for the SMK-Open project. Every model produced from this initiative is available under an open source license. Scanner - Artec Eva