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Hunting centaur

Classification
relief; architectural frieze
Culture
Egyptian (culture); Roman
Dimensions
34.8 x 65.1 cm
Date
330–360 A.D.
Period
Late Antique Period (mid-3rd–mid-5th centuries)
Material
limestone
Iconography
hunting scene; centaur; antilope; acanthus; gazelle?; scroll motif
Production place
Oxyrhynchus (el-Bahnasa)?
Findspot
Oxyrhynchus (el-Bahnasa)?
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Inventory
93.11.A
ID
Hyp-786
Condition
Top and left end of the block damaged.
References
Török 1998; Török 2005a, 86, no. 49; Török 2005b, 104–105, no. 49

The relief represents a hunting scene in the background of a stylised acanthus scroll. A young Centaur is shown at the moment when he throws himself with a final effort on the fleeing animal. The execution of the figures show a higher quality than the scroll. 

The material of this piece doesn't belong to the analyzable materials in the project of Danielle Decrouez  (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences).

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