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Graeco-Roman art.
teria damaged. Acquired through Hartwig in Rome, but came from
Athens.
In the picture area is a young man in a chlamys, with
a whip in his right hand and by his left leading two horses
by the reins.
Above are two rosettes and the inscription:
ΑΝΤΙΠΑΤΡΟΝ A , x
(Greetings, Antipatrus).
λΑι ι Jh
In the fronton a shield. Inferior work.
Billedtavler pl. XVI. N. C. G. 82 C.
229 a. (I. N. 2085). Hellenistic gravestone. M.
II. 0.76. The picture area of the relief is in the form of a naiscus
(chapel) crowned with a high cavetto moulding of almost Egyptian
type (cf. a relief at Lowther Castle, Arndt-Amelung 3084, though here
the form is modified more towards the Greek). Acquired in 1907 via
Munich.
In the naiscus a young man in chiton and himation, his
left hand holding up a hare, his right raising a stone threat-
eningly at a small dog leaping after the hare (of which the
head is broken off). The motive: the ephebe playing with
his dog, frequently occurs on both vase pictures and tomb
reliefs (Collignon, Mon. Piot XIX 1911 p. 153 seqq. Conze:
Attische Grabreliefs pls. 188 seqq., 187 No. 937 and 208 No.
1036). The hare is an erotic symbol possessing many of the
gifts of Aphrodite (Philostr. Imagines I 6,6) and therefore
a plaything of the young ephebes.
Below the naiscus we read:
ΔΑΜΟΚΑΕΥΝ ΤΙΜΑΝΑΓΟΡΑ
ΦΥΝΚΙΟΥ .
The young man is called Damocleus and he is the son of
Timasagorus, grandson of Physcius. The Doric genitive
Τιμασαγόρα is explained by the fact that the relief came
from Rhodos.
The stele is related to a group of East Ionic gravestones
and belongs to the 2nd cent. B. C. See especially Arch.
Jahrb. XX 1905 p. 55 fig. 10 a and Horn: Stehende weibliche
Gewandstatuen pl. 25,2. For the motive cf. Arch. Jahrb. 50,
1935 p. 29 fig. 17.
Billedtavler pl. LXXIII 230 a (an unfortunate number, as it was already in
use).
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teria damaged. Acquired through Hartwig in Rome, but came from
Athens.
In the picture area is a young man in a chlamys, with
a whip in his right hand and by his left leading two horses
by the reins.
Above are two rosettes and the inscription:
ΑΝΤΙΠΑΤΡΟΝ A , x
(Greetings, Antipatrus).
λΑι ι Jh
In the fronton a shield. Inferior work.
Billedtavler pl. XVI. N. C. G. 82 C.
229 a. (I. N. 2085). Hellenistic gravestone. M.
II. 0.76. The picture area of the relief is in the form of a naiscus
(chapel) crowned with a high cavetto moulding of almost Egyptian
type (cf. a relief at Lowther Castle, Arndt-Amelung 3084, though here
the form is modified more towards the Greek). Acquired in 1907 via
Munich.
In the naiscus a young man in chiton and himation, his
left hand holding up a hare, his right raising a stone threat-
eningly at a small dog leaping after the hare (of which the
head is broken off). The motive: the ephebe playing with
his dog, frequently occurs on both vase pictures and tomb
reliefs (Collignon, Mon. Piot XIX 1911 p. 153 seqq. Conze:
Attische Grabreliefs pls. 188 seqq., 187 No. 937 and 208 No.
1036). The hare is an erotic symbol possessing many of the
gifts of Aphrodite (Philostr. Imagines I 6,6) and therefore
a plaything of the young ephebes.
Below the naiscus we read:
ΔΑΜΟΚΑΕΥΝ ΤΙΜΑΝΑΓΟΡΑ
ΦΥΝΚΙΟΥ .
The young man is called Damocleus and he is the son of
Timasagorus, grandson of Physcius. The Doric genitive
Τιμασαγόρα is explained by the fact that the relief came
from Rhodos.
The stele is related to a group of East Ionic gravestones
and belongs to the 2nd cent. B. C. See especially Arch.
Jahrb. XX 1905 p. 55 fig. 10 a and Horn: Stehende weibliche
Gewandstatuen pl. 25,2. For the motive cf. Arch. Jahrb. 50,
1935 p. 29 fig. 17.
Billedtavler pl. LXXIII 230 a (an unfortunate number, as it was already in
use).
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