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Apollo. The chryselephantine statues of Apollo, Artemis and Leto occupy a hall in the Delphi Archaeological Museum looking rather like a treasury. They constitute excellent specimens of mid-6th century B.C. art, coming from workshops in Ionia, or, to a certain extent, Corinth.
White ground, Attic, c. 460, Apollo pours a libation, detail. [1] The few pottery exhibits of the Delphi Archaeological Museum include a famous shallow bowl with an unusual depiction of the god Apollo. In the white-ground red-figure technique, it was found in a grave underneath the museum. It is the work of an Attic workshop, around 480–470 BC.
The youths were either sepulchral or votive statues. Examples are Apollo (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), an early work; the Strangford Apollo from Anafi (British Museum), a much later work; and the Anavyssos Kouros (National Archaeological Museum of Athens). More of the musculature and skeletal structure is visible in this statue than ...
Other examples include the Apollo of Mantua and the Apollo Barberini, possibly a copy of the cult statue of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus; it is conserved in the Glyptothek, Munich. The Apollo Citaredo in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples is identified as Apollo but is clearly a female
The museum opened in 1977. [3] The site of the museum was chosen because of the number of archaeological sites in the area. [2] Wilderness Park, where the museum is located, was established with help from the El Paso Heritage Foundation. [4] The El Paso Archaeological Society contracted with the City of El Paso to maintain the museum. [5]
The first explorations of the site were conducted in 1939 by the West Texas Museum, now the Museum of Texas Tech University. In 1936, Clark Kimmel and Turner Kimmel found projectile points from the Firemen's Reservoir. In the late 1940s, several Folsom Period (10,800-10,300 years ago) bison kills were discovered.
The head was originally part of a complete statue, probably (judging by the shoulder-length curly hair) one of Apollo, made up of various sections (e.g. head, arms, legs, some of the locks of hair) produced separately by lost-wax casting then joined into one whole - a leg from the same sculpture is in the Louvre (Br 69).