{"id":641,"date":"2019-11-22T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/?p=641"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:05:59","slug":"11-lapith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/11-lapith\/","title":{"rendered":"11. Cast of a head of a Lapith"},"content":{"rendered":"

(1920s) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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This head is a cast that represents a Lapith<\/strong>\u2014 man from Thessaly, Greece\u2014engaged in a mythical battle with Centaurs<\/strong> at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos, king of the Lapiths<\/strong>. The original head on which this cast is based\u2014now in the Acropolis Museum<\/a> (object number 699)\u2014 fell off one of the metopes<\/strong> that decorated the Parthenon<\/a>. <\/strong>The square element or metope to which this head belonged, South metope<\/strong> VI, is now in the British Museum<\/a>, along with other metopes<\/strong> and decorations that Lord Elgin<\/a> brought from the Akropolis<\/a> <\/strong>to England from 1803.<\/p>\n

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Semni Papaspyridi at Rhitsona, Greece, ca. 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Lapith\u2019s<\/strong> head fell off before Elgin arrived in Athens and was found in the Akropolis<\/strong> excavations by the Greek Archaeological Service,<\/a> ca. 1920. Annie<\/a> and Percy Ure were given this plaster cast by Semni Papaspyridi<\/a> (shown right) of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens<\/a>, September 1922, and Annie donated it to the Museum in 1967. This cast, which stands in the curatorial office of the Ure Museum (Edith Morley 39), has been captured through 3D digital technology to be placed in \u201cAnnie\u2019s Box,\u201d a new outreach activity provided through the generosity of the University Friends, launched in October 2019.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Click here<\/strong><\/a> for the next stop on our trail.<\/p>\n

This post is part of Beyond the Ure<\/a>, a sculpture trail around the Edith Morley Building at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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