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Fragment of a Relief: Funerary Banquet

Date second half of the 4th century B.C.
Object type relief
Medium, technique carved, marble
Dimensions

42 × 32 × 10 cm

Inventory number 4746
Collection Classical Antiquities
On view Museum of Fine Arts, Basement Floor, Classical Antiquity, Eros – Dionysos – Thanatos

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 have shown that the relief was made of Pentelic marble.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.

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