Cast Gallery catalogue number: C141b

Portrait of the poet Sophokles.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.14m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Lateran Sophokles.
  • is possibly a version of the bronze statue set up in the Theatre of Athens at the suggestion of Lykourgos in about 340 BC.
  • was found in Terracina in 1839.
  • was given to Pope Gregory XVI by the Antonelli family.
  • is now in Rome, Museo Laterano, inv. 9973.