Lansdowne Sandal Binder
An athlete fastening his sandal. Named after the English aristocrat who owned it in the eighteenth century, this is a Roman copy of a Greek original. It is sometimes identified as Hermes, although the sculpture has none of the messenger god’s attributes. There are several Roman copies surviving, the best in Paris and Munich, but this one, now in Copenhagen, is unique in having its original head
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 273a
Size:
1.54m
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 280 (n.2), pl. 100.2
Poulsen: Katalog over Antike Skulpturen Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 203
Richter: Three Critical Periods in Greek Sculpture, 18, fig.25
Date:
Roman. Original: late C4 BCE
Sculptor:
School of Lysippos
Provenance:
Found by Gavin Hamilton in 1769 at Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli near Rome. Later in Lansdowne House
Number:
269