| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2632 | |
| Title: | TOTENMAHL RELIEF | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 2632 | |
| Description: | Part of the base of the left column is broken off; at center, base of relief is damaged by a circular cutting max. diam. 0.12m, H 0.06m, all acroteria. this marble votive relief is within an architectural framework of two columns which support an architrave surmounted by acroteria. the back of the relief is roughly dressed; both sides are smooth. The subject is a funeral banquet. In the right foreground, a male figure draped from the waist down reclines on a couch, left elbow supported on pillows. Torso is fully frontal; head faces front and slightly to his left and down. He holds an oval object in his left hand, a bowl or phiale (?) an din his right, a rhyton. to the left of this figure, sitting on the couch is a draped female figure. She faces right, body in 3/4 view, head in profile. Her right leg dangles over the side of the couch while the right foot rests on a stool. With both hands, she offers a bowl or basket of something to the male figure. Directly in front of the couch is a table, funeral cakes upon it. to the left of the couch in reduced scale, is the nude figure of a youth, head in profile as he faces the banquet scene to the right. in his left hand he holds a tambourine and in his right, a pitcher. To the right of this figure is a large amphora. Directly over the youth's head is the head of a horse in shallow relief, also facing right. | |
| Material: | pentelic marble | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. The only major damage to this relief is on the framework - on each of the columns, a horizontal cut the width of the column, 0.02m high and 0.01m deep, a vertical cut on the right column 0.02 m high and 0.01m deep. | |
| Manufacture: | This marble votive relief is within an architectural framework of two columns which support an architrave surmounted by acroteria. The back of the relief is roughly dressed; both sides are smooth. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L 0.60m, H 0.040m, W at side column 0.09m, max ht figures 0.28m | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Agora southwest | |
| Context: | Agora southwest | |
| NB210 B20 P105 | ||
| Findspot Description: | Agora SW #78, ?-IA/56-62, Div. A, E half. covering well in room 9. April 22, 1959. | |
| Bibliography: | Robinson & Weinberg, Hesperia XXIX 1960 p.235 note 23 pl.60a | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Robinson & Weinberg, Hesperia 29:3, 1960 Monument: Agora southwest Images (12) Basket: Agora southwest Basket: NB210 B20 P105 Notebook Page: NB 210, spread 57 (pp. 104 - 105) Notebook Page: NB 211, spread 27 (pp. 44 - 45) Notebook Page: NB 220, spread 80 (p. 151) |
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