Agora Image: 2009.05.0086A Triton from the second facade of the Roman Odeion, ca. A.D. 150-175, illustrates the continuity of scultpural practice in the Agora. The torso of the Triton was strongly influenced by one of the fugures in the east Pediment of the 5th-century B.C. Parthenon. The Triton was later reused in the 5th-century A.D. structure that occupied the site of the Odeion, probably a gymnasium.
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Archive Number:   2009.05.0086
Title:   A Triton from the second facade of the Roman Odeion, ca. A.D. 150-175, illustrates the continuity of scultpural practice in the Agora. The torso of the Triton was strongly influenced by one of the fugures in the east Pediment of the 5th-century B.C. Parthenon. The Triton was later reused in the 5th-century A.D. structure that occupied the site of the Odeion, probably a gymnasium.
Photographer:   Craig Mauzy
Date:   6 Aug 2005
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 2, fig. 1.
Rating:   4
References:   Publication: AgoraPicBk 27 (2006)
Monument: Odeion