Cast Gallery catalogue number: A136

Head of a youth wearing a lion-skin cap. Probably Telephos, a son of Herakles.

• Plaster cast: Height: 42cm.
• Copy of the head of a marble statue.
• The head:
  • is from the west pediment of the Temple of Athena at Tegea.
  • was made about 340 BC.
  • was found at Tegea (French excavations began in 1888).
  • is now in Tegea Museum.