Antikythera Ephebe
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The Antikythera Ephebe, registered as: Bronze statue of a youth in the museum collections,[1] is a bronze statue of a young man of languorous grace that was found in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. It was the first of the series of Greek bronze sculptures that the Aegean and Mediterranean yielded up in the twentieth century which have fundamentally altered the modern view of ancient Greek sculpture.[2] The wreck site, which is dated about 70–60 BC, also yielded the Antikythera mechanism (an astronomical calculating device), a characterful head of a Stoic philosopher, and a hoard of coins. The coins included a disproportionate quantity of Pergamene cistophoric tetradrachms and Ephesian coins, leading scholars to surmise that it had begun its journey on the Ionian coast, perhaps at Ephesus; none of its recovered cargo has been identified as from mainland Greece.[3]
Antikythera Ephebe | |
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Material | Bronze |
Height | 1.96 meters |
Created | c. 340–330 BC |
Discovered | 1900 Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea |
Present location | Athens, Attica, Greece |