EXTERNALLY DATED MONUMENTS, 525-400 BC
1. Before 525
SIPHNIAN TREASURY, DELPHI
Herodotus 3.57-58 (date); Pausanias 10.11.2
Caryatids, pediment, friezes
(identification of building)
2. After 510
Temple of Apollo, Delphi
Fragmentary marble pediment (E),
paid for by Alcmaeonid family
Herodotus 5.62; Philochoros, FGH 328 F
115 (after 510)
3. Before 490
Temple of Apollo, Eretria
Fragmentary marble pediment
(Athena, Theseus & Antiope)
4. After 490
Athenian Treasury, Delphi
Marble metopes (Theseus & Herakles)
So: Pausanias 10.11.5 (after Marathon);
Meiggs- Lewis 19
5. After 490
?Kallimachos' Nike, Athens
Marble votive figure on column
Fragmentary inscription: Meiggs-Lewis 18
6. Before 480
PERSIAN SACK, ATHENS-ACROPLIS Herodotus 8.53 (480 BC) and 9.3 (479 BC)
Votive marbles (esp. korai)
7. Before 478
Themistoklean Wall, Athens
Funerary stelai and relief bases
re-used as building material
8. 477/6
Herodotus 6.101 (Persian sack)
Thucydides 1.90-93
TYRANNICIDES, AGORA of ATHENS Marmor Parium: FGH IIB 239 A54 (precise
Public bronze monument to
date); Pausanias 1.8.5 (location)
Harmodios & Aristogeiton, known
in Roman scale versions in marble
9. 478 or 474
Charioteer, Delphi
Fragmentary bronze chariot group,
victory dedication of Polyzalos of Gela
Inscription: Fouilles de Delphes IV.5.26-7
10. 470-457
TEMPLES OF ZEUS, OLYMPIA
Marble metopes and pediment groups
Pausanias 5.10.2-10; Meiggs-Lewis 36
11. 447-432
PARTHENON, ACROPOLIS
Marble metopes, frieze, and
and pediment groups
IG I.13 436-51; Meiggs-Lewis 59 (inscribed
accounts)
12. 438/7
Athena Parthenos statue
Known in reduced Roman
versions, shield in scale versions
Philochoros, FGH 328 F 121 (dedication
date); Meiggs-Lewis 54 (accounts)
13. 425-420
NIKE OF MESSENIANS, OLYMPIA
Statue by Paionios on triangular pillar
Olympia V.259; ML 74
14. Before 409
Erechtheion caryatids, Athens
IG I.13 474
15. 409-6
Erechtheion frieze, Athens
IG I.13 475-76
16. 426-400
TWELVE 'RECORD RELIEFS'
Stelai inscribed with Athenian public C. Lawton, Attic Document Reliefs (1995),
documents, decorated with reliefs
nos. 1-12
5th CENTURY: MAIN EXTANT STATUES ATTRIBUTABLE to NAMED SCULPTURES
1. c. 500-470
2. c. 470-440
3. c. 460-430
4. c. 450-430
5. c. 450-430
6. c. 450-430
7. c. 440-420
8. c. 440-420
9. 425-20
10. c. 400
KRITIOS & NESIOTES
Tyrannicides (477/6), Athens
Paus 1.8.5; Agora III.256-80
MYRON
(a) Diskobolos
(b) Athena & Marsyas, Athens
Lucian, Philospeud. 18
Pliny, NH 34.57
POLYKLEITOS
(a) Doryphoros
(b) Diadoumenos
Pliny, NH 34.55
Pliny, NH 34.55
PHEIDIAS
(a) Athena Parthenos, Athens
(b) Amazon reliefs, on shield
(c) Niobid reliefs, on throne
of Zeus, Olympia
Paus 1.25.7; Pliny, NH 36.18
Pliny, NH 36.18
Paus 5.11.2
Polykleitos, Pheidias, Kresilas
Amazons, Ephesos
Pliny, NH 34.53
KRESILAS
Perikles, Athens acropolis
Pliny, NH 34.74
AGORAKRITOS
Nemesis, Rhamnous
Paus 1.33; Pliny, NH 36.17
ALKAMENES
Hermes Propylaios, Athens acropolis
? Prokne & Itys, ibid.
Two inscribed copies; Paus 1.22.8
Paus 1.24.3
PAIONIOS
Nike, Olympia
Paus. 5.26.1; Olympia V.259
NAUKYDES
? Diskobolos
Pliny, NH 34.80
Note 1: Nike of Paionios and fragments of Nemesis are contemporary originals. The others are known only in later marble
copies and versions of the Roman period.
Note 2: Some inscribed marble copies of Roman period after portrait statues of the fifth century BC may be contemporary
or near-to-contemporary with the figures represented: Themistokles, Pindar, and Anakreon.