Cast Gallery catalogue number: B233

Head of Laocoon from a statue.

• Plaster cast: Height: unavailable.
• Copy of the head of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Laocoon Group.
  • is a version by the Rhodian sculptors Hagesandros, Polydoros and Athenodoros, of an original of about 200 BC.
  • was found in Rome on the Esquiline in 1506.
  • is now in Rome, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono, inv. 1059, 1064, 1067.