| Inventory Number: | S 1249 | |
| Section Number: | ΚΤΛ 248 | |
| Title: | Votive Relief with Herakles and Worshippers | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | A rectangular relief with tongue below; intact save minor chips. At either side a pilaster supporting an epistyle on which is an inscription in shallow irregular spaced letters. At right, Herakles, nude, stands leaning on his club and holding the lion skin over his left arm. At center a bull lead by a youth. At left a draped bearded man with child beside him, a draped woman, and finally another woman carrying a large square bow on her head. The inscriptions reads as follows: ΠΑΝΙΣ ΑΙΓΙΡΙΟΣ ΗΡΚΛΕΙ Pentelic marble. Transferred to the Epigraphical Museum in June 1948. | |
| Context: | Purchased and presented to the Agora by David M. Robinson. Said to be from a house near the Ilissos, in the "Kynosarges" area. | |
| Negatives: | Leica | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.31; Lett. H. ca. 0.01; W. 0.43; Th. 0.075 | |
| Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
| Date: | September 1947 | |
| Section: | ΚΤΛ | |
| Bibliography: | JHS 70 (1950), Cook, J.M. | |
| Mitsos (1949), no. 27, pp. 32-33. | ||
| References: | Card: S 1249 Card: S 1249 |
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