144.
Athens honours Megalopolitans
IG II2 161
Athens, EM 70295 mid-3rd q. 4th c. Plate 76
Two non-joining fragments: a (
EM 7029a), found in 1860
in excavations east of Erechtheion, b (
EM 7029), found on
Akropolis in 1880. Fragment a preserves part of top, right
edge of relief, otherwise broken all around, back rough-picked. Relief bordered on right by 0.0375 wide anta, above
by 0.075 wide entablature inscribed with first two lines
of heading and [
ΘΕΟ]
Ι. Surface worn, corroded. White,
medium-grained marble. p.h. 0.23, p.w. 0.21, th. 0.11, relief
h. 0.005, h. of letters 0.009.
The very fragmentary inscription concerns honours
for the Poimenidai and other Megalopolitans. On the
right stands Athena, preserved only from the hips up,
turning slightly toward the left. She wears a peplos,
aegis, and Attic helmet. Her right arm, broken off
just below the elbow, was extended, perhaps to crown
one or more of the honorands on the left. The opaque
drapery with sharply cut lines radiating from Athena's
belt is characteristic of the plainer drapery style that
begins in the middle of the fourth century (cf. nos.
28, 29). The Athena type, the low relief, and flat frame
link the relief with several others from the middle to
the third quarter of the century (nos. 36, 143), of
which no. 143 may be by the same hand.
K. S. Pittakys,
ArchEph (1859) 1878 no. 3639; U. Köhler,
AM (1880) 320 no. 7; Sybel, 351-52 no. 5225;
IG II.5
103b; A. Wilhelm,
ÖJhBeibl (1898) 45; Binneboeßel, 12
no. 52, 20, 56, 58-59; Svoronos, 666 no. 435 (i), pl. 210.3;
Lambrechts, pl. 10; Frel,
Les sculpteurs anonymes, 35 no.
214; B. Holtzmann,
BCH 96 (1972) 74 n. 1; Meyer, 299 A
120, pl. 48.4.