Fragment of a relief: funerary banquet

Classification

votive relief

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

41 × 31.5 cm

Date

4th century B.C.

Period

Classical Period (480–323)

Material

marble analysis ; Pentelic marble

Iconography

couch (kline); male figure ; female figure ; calathus (modius/polos); rhyton ; chiton ; himation ; horse's head ; offering scene

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Nani Collection ; Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

4746

Hyp-775

References

Hekler 1929, 42, no. 30

The Athenian relief carved in honour of an unknown hero commemorates a funerary banquet, with a number of motifs, such as the pillowed couch, the reclining gesture and the table laden with food, familiar from vases with symposium scenes.

Marble analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the relief was made of Pentelic marble. Click here for the detailed results.

Trails

Symposium (banquet)

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.