Cast Gallery catalogue number: A086e
Hera and Zeus seated.
The standing figure to the left may be Nike but is more likely Iris.
- Plaster cast: Height: 1.04m.
- Copy of part of a marble frieze.
- The frieze:
- is from the east end of the Parthenon.
- was made about 440 BC.
- The head of Iris (top left of the cast) was found on the south-west side of the Athens Acropolis in 1889, and is now in Athens, National Museum, 855.
- The rest of this part of the frieze was brought to London in the early 1800s and is now in London, British Museum, Slab V.