Banqueter figurine
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Banqueting youth

Banqueting man

Classification
statuette; votive offering
Culture
Magna Graecian
Dimensions
height: 15.7 cm; width: 13.5 cm
Date
turn of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.
Period
Archaic Period (700–480)
Material
clay
Iconography
male figure; mantle; couch (kline); libation bowl (phiale, patera); wreath; ribbon; palmette/palmette frieze; rosette
Production place
Tarentum / Taras (Taranto)
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts
Inventory
T.730
ID
Hyp-7032

The terracotta relief depicts a banqueting man, with a bowl in his left hand. 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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