Cast Gallery catalogue number: C006b

Head of Aristogeiton, one of the Tyrant-slayers.
For another copy of the head see C006a; for the whole figure see C005b; for the other Tyrant-slayer see C005a.

• Plaster cast: Height: 53cm.
• Copy of the head of a marble statue from the group known as the Tyrannicides or Tyrant-slayers.
• The group:
  • is a version of the original group made by Kritios and Nesiotes and set up near the Athens Agora in 477/6 BC.
• The head:
  • was found in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1779 by Jose Nicolas de Azara.
  • is now in Madrid, Museo Arqueologico.