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FRAGMENT: A WARRIOR BETWEEN HORSE AND A YOUNG MAN WITH A TRIPOD
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FRAGMENT: A WARRIOR BETWEEN HORSE AND A YOUNG MAN WITH A TRIPOD
Terracotta
Height: 9cm
Width: 8.5cm
Width: 8.5cm
Museum number: M1161.D
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 462
Not on display
Curatorial note
The head and upper body with part of the right arm of a youth standing right, seen from the back, holding a large tripod against his chest. The oval, rimmed bowl faces the viewer beyond the youth's left shoulder.
Group I: Wainscoting Plaque
The fragment of a group of plaques representing scenes from the Trojan Wars: the visit of Priam with costly presents to redeem the body of his son, Hector. The composition of this scene can be reconstructed from three fragments, one in the Louvre and two in Berlin1 ; this fragment exhibits a minor variation in the position of the tripod: held by the youth so as to show the top of the bowl rather than its profile.
1 Von Rohden, H., and Winnefeld, H., Die antiken Terracotten, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit), IV, pp. 106-107, pl. LVI.
Group I: Wainscoting Plaque
The fragment of a group of plaques representing scenes from the Trojan Wars: the visit of Priam with costly presents to redeem the body of his son, Hector. The composition of this scene can be reconstructed from three fragments, one in the Louvre and two in Berlin1 ; this fragment exhibits a minor variation in the position of the tripod: held by the youth so as to show the top of the bowl rather than its profile.
1 Von Rohden, H., and Winnefeld, H., Die antiken Terracotten, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit), IV, pp. 106-107, pl. LVI.
Provenance
See Vermeule 459.
Literature
H. Von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit.), IV, p.107.
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