Top left: votive relief showing Athena standing before a votive pinax; Top...
| Collection: | Athens, National Archaeological Museum |
| Title: | Votive relief with horse, rider, slave, and dog |
| Context: | Possibly from Athens |
| Summary: | Horse, rider, slave, and dog |
| Object Function: | Votive |
| Material: | Marble |
| Sculpture Type: | Stele, relief-decorated |
| Category: | Single monument |
| Style: | Hellenistic |
| Technique: | Low relief |
| Original or Copy: | Original |
| Date: | ca. 200 BC - ca. 100 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.43 m; W. 0.54 m |
| Scale: | Miniature (pictorial field) |
| Period: | Hellenistic |
Subject Description: A youthful traveller (hunter) walks profile to the right, in the center of the relief. He wears a chitoniskos, a chlamys, and a petasos hanging on his shoulders. In his lowered right hand he holds the reins of the horse which likewise walks profile to the left, on the left side of the youth (shown in the background). Farther in the background is a hunting dog, behind the front legs of the horse, also profile to the right. Behind the youth, on the far left of the relief, is a small boy, probably a slave, dressed in an exomis, and holding over his left shoulder a staff to which is attached a dead hare.
Form & Style: The relief is framed by a plinth and rectangular antae supporting a simple epistyle.
Condition: Nearly complete
Condition Description: Reconstructed from several fragments, preserving all but the middle portion of the relief.
Material Description: "White marble," according to Svoronos
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