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Reliefs from Rectangular Base

Four reliefs depicting rural life and festivities. In the original there are winged lions or griffins at the corners; in the cast there are traces of the wings only. Also missing from the cast of one of the short sides (with a doe suckling a fawn) is a figure of Herakles. The illustration shows a detail

Number: 
453
Material: 
Marble
Location of Original: 

Rome, Sala de’ Busti 509 (?)

Size: 
0.52 x 1.02 & 0.75m
References: 

Hauser: Die Neu Attischen Reliefs (1889), 129, no.6
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 92, no.497 (one side)
Amelung: Catalogue of the Vatican Museum II (1908), 509
Visconti: Museo Pio Clementino IV, pls. XXV, XXVa, XXVb

Date: 
C1 BCE - C1 CE
Provenance: 

Unknown

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