Ashmole and Yalouris figs. L and N.
H 15 in.
Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 469.


About half of this head was preserved, but not the nose, the lower part of the face, or the beard. Georg Treu at the Albertinum in Dresden had all these segments restored when casts was produced, so as to make a complete head. The curving seams delineate what was replaced. The right side of the face and 34head is original, and comes from the head of what has been identified as another "Seer" in the east pediment (figure L). The beard appears to be molded from that of the Old Seer in the east pediment (figure N, and above no. 3). Fig. 5.


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See Bernard Ashmole and Nicholas Yalouris, Olympia. The Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus (London, 1967),fig. N pls. 31-38.]]> Ashmole and Yalouris figs. B and E.
Lifesize, W 39 in.
Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 468.
Cast Location: Mason Hall- Stairwell facing Concert Hall

The naked boy sits on a flattened piece of drapery that folds over his left arm and fingers one of his toes, waiting quietly but nervously for the chariot race between Pelops and Oenomaus to begin. The head of the marble boy is missing, but the cast-makers were evidently not comfortable with the sculpture in that condition, so they attached a new head to the plaster, this one a cast taken from the head of a somewhat older kneeling youth in the east pediment of the temple. Figure 4. Figure 4 before cleaning and joining of two separate plaster sections.


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See Bernard Ashmole and Nicholas Yalouris, Olympia. The Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus (London, 1967), fig. E, pls. 41-43, and fig. B pls. 50-52 .]]> Ashmole and Yalouris fig. N.
H 55 in., W 72 in., D 17 1/2 in.
Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 468.
Cast Location: SUB I- 2nd floor

This Old Seer is one of the onlookers at the chariot race, which has not yet begun. The old man knits his brow and opens his mouth slightly in horror at his knowledge of what is about to happen. An uneven seam around the right shoulder shows where the cast-makers reconstructed parts of this figure that were missing on the marble original. The restorations of this and all the casts were overseen by Georg Treu (1843-1921), director of the German excavations at Olympia from 1875 to 1881, and curator of sculpture in Dresden's Albertinum from 1882 to 1915.
~Nathan Barber


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See Bernard Ashmole and Nicholas Yalouris, Olympia. The Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus (London, 1967), fig. N, pls. 31-40.]]> Persepolis, Palace.
Stone.
Fifth century BCE.
Persepolis, Iran.
H 40 in., W 60 in.
Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 187.

This is part of a relief representing one corner of a canopy above the image of the king. From the side of a doorway to the Hall of One Hundred Columns at Persepolis. Rows of rosettes separate rows of bulls and of lions. At the head of each file of animals is a winged disk. The cast was made from a mold taken in Persepolis in 1892 by the plaster-maker Lorenzo Giuntini (1844-1920), son of an Italian plaster-maker, and an English mother. Giuntini accompanied Herbert Weld Blundell on an expedition to Persepolis in 1891-1892, to make casts of the reliefs. Thereafter the molds were destroyed. This and other of Giuntin's casts from Persepolis are preserved in the British Museum.


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See Cecil H. Smith, Catalogue of Casts of Sculptures from Persepolis (London, 1892). Figure 1.]]>