Neo-Attic

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Beginning in the Greek Hellenistic period (2nd c. BCE), a number of sculpture workshops at Athens began to specialize in copies and adaptations of reliefs and statues of the Classical period (5th and 4th c. BCE) and Archaic period (6th c. BCE). These works, intended for purchase by Roman connoisseurs, were typically based on Attic originals, and the workshops and sculptures are conventionally termed neo-Attic.