Relief with Funerary Meal
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 234bis
- Date
- 300 BC, Hellenistic
- Museum
- Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, SK 936
- Museum Inventory No.
- SK 936
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Stockholm SK936
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Funerary Relief, Human Figure
- Site
- Sardis?
- Findspot
- Allegedly from Sardis, bought in Smyrna.
- Description
- The bearded man lies on a couch with a drinking cup in his I. hand. A snake coils over his l. shoulder and his veiled wife sits at his feet. Before him stands a three-legged table, beside it a wine jar and a small boy who is serving the wine. On the wall above the man's head are a shield and helmet.
- Condition
- Marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.35.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: A. Andrén, Antiken Kunst, no. 156; Pfuhl-Möbius, Ostgriechischen Grabreliefs, no. 1553, pl. 224. We are indebted to H. Möbius for this addendum.
- Author
- NHR