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North Frieze Slab 2: North frieze: three youths drive two cattle to sacrif...

Collection: Athens, Acropolis Museum
Title: Parthenon, North Frieze slab 2
Context: From Athens, Acropolis
Findspot: Found at Athens, Acropolis
Summary: Sacrificial cattle and drivers
Sculptor: Literary attestation to Pheidias
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Architectural
Category: Statuary group
Placement: North side
Style: High Classical
Original or Copy: Original
Date: 447 BC - 432 BC
Dimensions:

H 1.02 m, W 1.41 m
Scale: Under life-size
Region: Attica
Period: High Classical
In Group: Parthenon Frieze

Subject Description:

Three youths, all wearing himatia, drive cattle to left. First cow is docile but second is struggling.

Condition: Single fragment

Condition Description:

Right corners of slab missing. Surface battered.

Material Description:

Pentelic Marble

Associated Building: Athens, Parthenon

Sources Used:

Robertson & Frantz 1975; Boardman 1985a, 106-109; Stewart 1990, 155-157; Brouskari 1974, 150