The original greek work and a number of roman copies survive.
Marble relief roman.
Naples national archaeological museum.
The figure has been represented according to greek artistic conventions as a mature individual with a very full head of hair arranged in a very intricate style.
Honolulu academy of arts gift of anna rice cooke 1932 3602.
Roman copy of the augustan age from a greek original of the second half of 5th cent.
The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of demeter at eleusis the site of the eleusinian mysteries a secret cult that was famous throughout antiquity.
20 6 cm the thracian horseman was represented as an armed warrior riding a horse.
At one time this imitation was taken by art historians as indicating a narrowness of the roman artistic imagination but in the late 20th century.
Copy of a greek relief of ca.
Orpheus eurydice and hermes.
Here the ten roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the greek relief.
Of this representation we have more tan 2 500 examples whose have been found in reliefs and commemorative stelae mainly form hellenistic and roman period.
Ashmolean musuem oxford uk.
Marble relief depicting two pairs of collared slaves being led on ropes by helmeted men from smyrna izmir turkey 200 ce.
Marble bas relief roman copy of the late 1st century ad.
The study of roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to greek sculpture many examples of even the most famous greek sculptures such as the apollo belvedere and barberini faun are known only from roman imperial or hellenistic copies.
In the honolulu academy of arts.
Attributed to kallimachos maenads were mythical women inspired by the god of wine dionysos to abandon their homes and families and roam the mountains and forests singing and dancing in a state of ecstatic frenzy.
Bce by alcamenes disciple of phidias.
This very accomplished marble relief depicts a male figure in three quarter view facing left.
After a neo attic original of the hellenistic era in greek and roman mythology the palladium or palladion was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of troy and later rome was said to depend.
It is one of the first testimonies of the thracian religion a local cult which influenced roman a.
A marble relief panel from smyrna showing roman slaves in chains.
A roman marble stele depicting a thracian horseman.