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.
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