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Fragment of a votive or funerary relief
Greco-Roman
Medium/Technique
Marble from the island of Prokonnesus in the Sea of Marmara (Turkey)
Dimensions
25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of J. T. Clarke
Accession Number84.237
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 286.
DescriptionThe relief is broken irregularly above, on the right, and below. The surface is worn and weathered.
Rough filled moldings divide the two surviving registers of relief. In the upper, two horses walk to the right, two men in short tunics (or a figure riding side saddle awkwardly) on the one at the left. In the lower register, three figures (heads and shoulders only visible) are shown full face.
University of South Florida Lab No. 8481: Isotope ratios - delta13C +2.6 / delta18O -8.3,
Attribution - Proconnesus 2, Turkey. Justification - C and O isotopes, findspot in northwestern Turkey
Rough filled moldings divide the two surviving registers of relief. In the upper, two horses walk to the right, two men in short tunics (or a figure riding side saddle awkwardly) on the one at the left. In the lower register, three figures (heads and shoulders only visible) are shown full face.
University of South Florida Lab No. 8481: Isotope ratios - delta13C +2.6 / delta18O -8.3,
Attribution - Proconnesus 2, Turkey. Justification - C and O isotopes, findspot in northwestern Turkey
ProvenanceFrom the northeast slope of Mt. Ida; gift of J. T. Clarke to MFA, 1884