Cast Gallery catalogue number: B004

Kleobis.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.36m.
• Copy of one of a pair of marble statues representing the brothers Kleobis and Biton.
• The statues:
  • are Greek originals of about 580 BC.
  • are inscribed with the names of the brothers, and the signature of the sculptor [Poly?]medes of Argos.
  • were found at Delphi, north-west of the Athenian Treasury.
  • are now in Delphi Museum, 467 (statue of Kleobis) and 980 (plinth).

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

B 004
Argive Twin ("Kleobis or Biton"); Delphi

Marble
Statue Group
Greece, Delphi, Museum
590-580 BCE; Archaic

Description:
Although the pair has always been considered Kleobis and Biton, according to epigrapher it reads on the thigh "Polydeukes";i.e. the Dioscuri. The boots are appropriate for the Dioscuri.