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Leonidas is a sculpture of a hoplite made of Parian marble in 480–470 BC and unearthed in 1925. The excavation team named it "Leonidas", deducing that it depicts the Spartan king Leonidas I. It was found southwest of peribolos of the Athena Chalkioikos on the Acropolis of Sparta. The sculpture is housed in the Archaeological Museum of Sparta, which acquired it from the British School at Athens in 1926. The sculpture features a Corinthian helmet with ram-shaped cheek pieces. While most of the plume is a restoration, fragments of a leg, foot, shield and helmet were also found nearby.

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Statue of Leonidas at Thermopylae In 1955, a bronze statue of king Leonidas was erected as part of a monument in Thermopylae. Its sculptor modeled it after the 'Leonidas' torso excavated in 1925. Sponsored by a group of Greek Americans, the planned site was in the modern city of Sparta, but the project was met by objection there because the statue was naked. Statue of Leonidas at Sparta In 1969, another bronze statue of king Leonidas, again made by Vasos Falireas, was erected in downtown Sparta. It was designed in 1966, installed in 1969 This time it was clothed. Its design and pose differs from the monument in Thermopylae, but Paul Cartledge describes both statues as based on "the exact same model", the excavated 'Leonidas' torso. ==References==
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