Top left: Votive relief to Asklepios and Epione or Hygieia; Top right: Rel...

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Votive relief showing Hygieia and a horse

Collection: Athens, National Archaeological Museum
Title: Votive relief showing Hygieia and a horse
Context: From Athens
Findspot: Found near Athens, Hephaisteion, during the Piraeus railway excavations of 1891
Summary: Hygieia and a horse
Object Function: Votive
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Stele, relief-decorated
Category: Single monument
Style: Late Classical
Technique: Medium relief
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 350 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.53 m; W. 0.50 m
Scale: Miniature (pictorial field)
Region: Attica
Period: Late Classical

Subject Description: On the right portion of the relief is illustrated the roof of a temple (shown from the side) in front of which stands Hygieia, a youthful goddess, wearing a chiton and a himation. With her weight on her left foot, she leans on an anta of the temple. To her left stands a rectangular altar, in front of a (votive?) pinax or plaque. From the left approaches a horse, shown in profile to the left (compare to Athens, NM 1341, on which a horse with rider approaches Asklepios).

Condition: Fragmentary

Condition Description: Only the right side of the relief remains.

Material Description: "Pentelic" according to Svoronos

Sources Used: Svoronos 1903-12, 328-29, pl. 38.4