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- Museum number
- 2015,5009.123
- Description
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Metope fragments from Temple F at Selinunte.
Engraving.
- Production date
- 1826 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 430 millimetres
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Width: 306 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Engraving from a collection of around 200 works on paper by the architects Samuel Angell and William Harris, relating to their trip and excavations on Sicily in 1822-1823. On their trip they intended to refine the published drawings by William Wilkins (1807). They visited Syracuse and Agrigento before travelling to Selinunte where, after finding archaic metopes, they started excavating and recording the temples and sculptures for future publication. Harris died in Selinunte in July 1823. Angell published their findings in 1826, where this engraving is published as Plate IV. For a brief overview see C. Marconi (2007) 'Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus,' CUP: 133-134.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017-2018, 10 October-9 January, Museo Archeologico Antonino Salinas, Il British Museum al Salinas
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Sculptured Metopes discovered amongst the Ruins of the Temples of the Ancient City of Selinus in Sicily
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Associated Title: The Antiquities of Magna Graecia (1807)
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2015,5009.123
