Cast Gallery catalogue number: A003

Cattle-raid by Lynkeus (missing), Idas, and the Dioskouroi. Each holds two spears in his left hand, and one in his right.

• Plaster cast: Height: 59cm.
• Copy of a limestone metope.
• The metope:
  • is from the Sikyonian Treasury at Delphi.
  • was made about 560 BC.
  • was found at Delphi.
  • is now in Delphi, Archaelogical Museum, inv. 1322.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

A 003
Dioscuri Cattle Raid relief; Sicyonian Treasury

Marble
Metope
Greece, Delphi, Museum, 1323