It would be great to compare, for example, a literary description of an ancient building/statue with the actual surviving piece.
I know we have copies of things like the Knidian Aphrodite so if I've piqued anyone's Anybody have any others?
There are a bunch. Just look up Pausanias for stuff in Greece(He is also the most famous guy who wrote about this stuff).Look into the part in the encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder that is about metals and stones,he talks about statues,jewelry and coins there. Actually classical archeologists use those all the time. Those are the ones I use the most for class. Edit:Fixed a typo
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Hello! The one example I immediately remember is "Hermes and the Infant Dionysus," which Pausanias mentions in his Description of Greece: "...at a later time, other images were dedicated at the Temple of Hera [in Olympia]: namely, a marble Hermes carrying the infant Dionysus, a work of Praxiteles..." (5.17.3) Not too detailed, but it's interesting nonetheless. Here are two photos of it I took at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia: http://imgur.com/WhfGqPB http://imgur.com/UXq2Z5q