Cast Gallery catalogue number: C090

Head of an Amazon.

• Plaster cast: Height: 51cm.
• Copy of a bronze head of an Amazon of the type known as Mattei.
• The bronze head:
  • is a version of a Greek original of about 440-430 BC.
  • was found at Herculaneum, Villa dei Papiri.
  • is now in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 4889.