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Banqueting youth

Classification
statuette; votive offering
Culture
Magna Graecian
Dimensions
height: 17.3 cm
Date
530–500 B.C.
Period
Archaic Period (700–480)
Material
clay
Iconography
youth; mantle; lyre; libation bowl (phiale, patera); crown, headdress, hairstyle
Production place
Tarentum / Taras (Taranto)
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Inventory
77.104.A
ID
Hyp-7033

The terracotta relief depicts a banqueting youth, 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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