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Cast Gallery catalogue number: B068a
Youth, possibly an athlete.
Plaster cast: Height: 1.02m.
Copy of a marble statue.
The statue:
is known as the Kritian Boy because of the similarity of the head to that of
Harmodios
in the
Tyrannicides
group made by Kritos and Nesiotes and set up near the
Athens
Agora
in 477/6 BC. (See
C005a
for a cast of
Harmodios
).
is a Greek original of about 490-480 BC.
was found on the
Athens
Acropolis
.
is now in Athens,
Acropolis
Museum 698.