75.
Content unidentified
Dorset, Kingston Lacy
late 5th c. Plate 40
Provenance unknown. Preserves part of top, otherwise
broken all around. Relief bordered above by wide taenia.
Crystalline greyish marble (Vermeule). p.h. 0.34, p.w. 0.21,
max. th. 0.09. Not examined.
None of the text is preserved. The relief depicts Athena
and another figure of the same scale, of whom only
the right arm and hand are preserved. Athena is
almost frontal, but with her head turned sharply
toward the right. She wears a peplos with belted
overfold, perhaps a shoulder mantle, and an Attic
helmet whose crest slightly overlaps the border above.
Her right arm is held a little away from her body,
perhaps holding the edge of her mantle; the relief is
broken at this point. Her left hand is extended somewhat toward the other figure, but she does not clasp his or her right hand.
The drapery of Athena is closely comparable to
that of the Athenas of the decree concerning Athens
and Neapolis (no. 7) and the accounts of the treasurers of Athena of 410/9 (no. 8). Frel attributed the relief to ‘the Myttion sculptor’, whom he identified as the sculptor of the Telemachos Monument, but the
drapery style of the document relief appears finer,
more transparent.
C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer,
AJA 60 (1956) 331, pl.
104.3; J. Frel,
Les sculpteurs anonymes, 25 no. 105;
GettyMusJ 2 (1975) 15 no. 4; Meyer, 271 A 19.