Cast Gallery catalogue number: A097

Torso of Poseidon.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.2m.
• Copy of a marble torso.
• The torso:
  • is from the west pediment of the Parthenon.
  • was made about 440 BC.
  • was brought from Athens to London in the early 1800s, and is now in London, British Museum, 304.
• A further fragment:
  • was found by Ludwig Ross in 1835.
  • is in Athens, Acropolis Museum, 885.