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Demetrios Ioannou

Casts of ancient Greek statues are created in a workshop near Athens. Replicas of 800 artworks are made here and sold via museum shops around Greece.

Maria Zafeiri checks a group of Tanagra figurine replicas before boxing them up for transport. The small statues are exact copies of ancient Greek terra-cotta originals, which were discovered in tombs north of Athens.

Painter Konstantinos Kypriotakis adds finishing touches to a plaster replica of an ancient statue of Spartan warrior king Leonidas.

A plaster cast of Greek goddess Hygeia is unmolded at the Agios Ioannis Rentis workshop. The original is exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

Diamanto Sfetsa pours plaster and water into a mold of a Cycladic statue.

Melina Gyparaki produces a copy of an ancient Greek toy horse at the workshop.

Plaster casts of an ancient Greek bust of Sappho, the poetess, are created in a workshop just south of Athens, Greece. The replicas are destined for museum gift shops around the country.