Cast Gallery catalogue number: B101b

Head of an athlete (or possibly Herakles).

• Plaster cast: Height: 44 cm.
• Copy of a marble head.
• The head:
  • is known as the Aberdeen Head.
  • is a Greek original of about 320 BC.
  • was found in Greece in about 1803 and purchased by the British Museum in 1862.
  • is now in London, British Museum, 1600.