Victory Relief from Oropos, general view

Victory Relief from Oropos, charioteer and soldier

Victory Relief from Oropos, detail of legs of horses

Victory Relief from Oropos, detail of quadriga

Victory Relief from Oropos, detail of heads of horses

Victory Relief from Oropos, detail of soldier and chariot

Collection: Berlin, Antikenmuseen
Title: Victory Relief from Oropos
Findspot: Found at Oropos
Summary: Charioteer and soldier/contestant with four-horse team
Object Function: Votive
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Stele, relief-decorated
Style: Late Classical
Technique: Low relief
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 400 BC - ca. 380 BC
Dimensions:

H including tenon 0.81 m, H of tenon 0.09 m, W 0.978 m, D 0.13 m, H of relief 0.045 m

Scale: Miniature
Region: Attica
Period: Late Classical


Condition: Intact

Condition Description:

Missing or damaged: upper right face of charioteer, head and shield of figure with helmet, heads of second and fourth horses, legs of horses, upper right corner of horizontal gable. Weathering and minor damage to surface throughout, with chipping.

Material Description:

grey marble

Collection History:

Found in 1835 at Skala by Oropos, where it had been built into a gate. Acquired in 1884 from the Sabouroff Collection.

Sources Used:

Blümel 1966, no. 85