Cast Gallery catalogue number: C253
Head of Sophokles.
For whole statue see Cast C141b.
- Plaster cast: Height: 32 cm.
- Copy of the head of a marble statue.
- The statue:
- is known as Lateran Sophokles.
- is possibly a version of the bronze statue set up in the Theatre of Athens at the suggestion of Lykourgos in about 340 BC.
- was found in Terracina in 1839.
- was given to Pope Gregory XVI by the Antonelli family.
- is now in Rome, Museo Laterano, inv. 9973.