Greek Hero Relief
Greek, 5th century BC
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
499 BC - 470 BC
Materials
Pentelic marble
Measurements
630 x 760 mm
Place of origin
Greece
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486378
Summary
Pentelic marble, Greek Hero Relief, A late fifth century BC Greek marble funerary stele in low relief. The hero on horseback rides towards a female offering him a libation bowl, in lowered left hand she carries an ewer whilst behind her a snake twines around a tree.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72), arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M. Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
72 (painted to right of horse's leg)
Makers and roles
Greek, 5th century BC, sculptor