Terracotta plaques: Scylla
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Tarentine antefix

Tarentine terracotta relief: banqueting man

Classification
statuette; votive offering
Culture
Magna Graecian
Dimensions
20.2 × 24.5 cm
Date
530–510 B.C.
Period
Archaic Period (700–480)
Material
clay
Iconography
youth; mantle; lyre; libation bowl (phiale, patera); couch (kline)
Production place
Tarentum / Taras (Taranto)
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Fleissig, József (1897–1944)
Inventory
50.119
ID
Hyp-3044
References
Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 88–89; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 100

The terracotta relief depicts a banqueting man, with a lyre and a bowl in his hands. These reliefs are mostly characteristic of the city of Taras, which were made by thousands in the 6th–4th centuries BC. These were votive gifts: they are recovered not only from the sanctuaries of the city but also from its cemeteries.

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