Relief

Object Number:

MS4918

Current Location:

Greece Gallery

Culture:

Greco-Roman

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Period:

Hellenistic Period

Date Made:

99-0 BC

Early Date:

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Marble (Stone)

Technique:

Carved

Iconography:

Woman
Priest
Tripod
Cauldron

Description:

Incomplete, Neo-Attick relief. 5 joining fragments. Low relief. White, unpainted marble. Back rough. In the center is a tripod preserved up to the level of the cauldron, standing on a tall shaft. To the left, a fully drapped female figure on 3/4 view facing the tripod extending both hands to a fillet on the tripod. To the right the lower part of a second figure, evidently male (a preist?), also facing the tripod is part of a staff (thyrsus?) resting on the projecting support of the shaft. The dress of the figure at the left terminates in stacked folds. That of the one at the right ends below in simple, vertical, even folds, to the ankle. He wears a cloak to calf level. The cauldron was evidently attached seperately in another material, perhaps bronze. The stone is cut down to recieve this attachment and there is a hole for a tenon.

Height:

64.5cm

Thickness:

4cm

Outside Diamater:

71cm

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Roman Sculpture Gallery (1975 - 2000)

Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Romano, Irene B. 2006. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 251:121

[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.

[Article] Bates, William. 1914. "Archaeological News: Notes on Recent Excavations and Discoveries; Other News". : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 416

[Article] Hall, E. E. 1914. "A Neo-Attic Relief and a Roman Portrait Head.". The Museum Journal. 5 (1): 26-28. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 26-28, fig. 15

[Article] Hall, Edith H. 1913. "The Graeco-Roman Collection" 1913 The Museum Journal Vol. IV, No. 4. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 168

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