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Rampin Rider

Please note that all the exhibits were moved to the New Acropolis Museum, opened on 20 June 2009.

<Location> Acropolis Archaeological Museum, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Exhibited in the fourth room. It is called Rampin Rider from the French man who excavated this statue. The head you see in this photo is a cast; the original was brought to Paris by Rampin and now housed in the Louvre Museum (the head in this photo is a replica).

Dated to ca. 550 BCE.

Bibliography

• Hans Rupprecht Goette, Athens, Attica, and the Megarid: an Archaeological Guide, London/ Routledge 2001, p. 43.

Other Photos of Acropolis Museum

• Brond Head
• Rampin Rider
• Moschophoros
• Prokne
• Archaic Horseman
  
• Mourning Athena
• Kekrops and his Daughter
• Gigantomachia
• Chiotissa

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