John Cochrane (2006) These two stelai (upright slabs) are working reconstructions of kleroteria made out of marble dust. Each of the ten phylai (tribes) of Classical Athens used a pair…Read More >
Sculpture
13. Bust of Percy Ure
Jannis Athene (1943) This bust shows the mature Percy Ure, University College Reading’s first Professor of Classics (from 1911), as he appeared in the 1940s. Percy Ure founded the Museum…Read More >
6. Memnon
Eric Stanford (1990) Memnon was the son of a goddess and a prince, and king of Ethiopia, in Africa. Like Protesilaus [5] he fought in the Trojan War, where he…Read More >
11. Cast of a head of a Lapith
(1920s) This head is a cast that represents a Lapith— man from Thessaly, Greece—engaged in a mythical battle with Centaurs at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos, king of the Lapiths. The…Read More >
1. Cast of a fragment from the Erechtheion frieze
Brucciani & Co. (1889) The Erechtheion was one of several Greek temples on the Akropolis (literally ‘high city’) of ancient Athens, just North of the Parthenon. It was built between…Read More >