Grabrelief: Reiter
1. - 3. Jh. n. Chr.
This framed image celebrates the deceased as a heroic horseman. He is clutching a bowl in his right hand, and his cloak (clamys) is billowing in the wind. On the right is a sacrificial altar - the cone indicates a lit flame - and behind it stands a bare tree with a serpent wrapped around it, a symbol of the Underworld. Both depictions of funerary banquets and images of mounted heroes approaching an altar and a tree with a serpent were among the most popular funerary reliefs in Asia Minor.
This framed image celebrates the deceased as a heroic horseman. He is clutching a bowl in his right hand, and his cloak (clamys) is billowing in the wind. On the right is a sacrificial altar - the cone indicates a lit flame - and behind it stands a bare tree with a serpent wrapped around it, a symbol of the Underworld. Both depictions of funerary banquets and images of mounted heroes approaching an altar and a tree with a serpent were among the most popular funerary reliefs in Asia Minor.
Time:
1. - 3. Jh. n. Chr.
Object Name
Grabdenkmal
Culture
Griechisch
Location of discovery:
Ephesos (Selçuk, Kleinasien, Türkei)
Material/technology:
Marmor
Dimensions:
L/H 35 × B 34 × D/T 9 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung
Invs.
Antikensammlung, I 871
Provenance
Österreichisches archäologisches Institut, in Ajasoluk erworben; 1905 Geschenk; 1911 nachträglich inventarisiert
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