Athens, NM 1417 (Sculpture)

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Collection:	Athens, National Archaeological Museum
Title:	Relief showing hero with kantharos and snake
Context:	Probably from Sparta
Findspot:	Said to be from Sparta
Summary:	Hero with kantharos and snake
Object Function:	Unknown
Material:	Marble?
Sculpture Type:	Stele, relief-decorated
Category:	Single monument
Technique:	Very low relief
Original or Copy:	Original
Date:	ca. 450 BC
Dimensions:	H. 0.27 m; W. 0.15 m
Scale:	Miniature (pictorial field)
Region:	Laconia
Period:	High Classical

Subject Description: Within the unframed relief stands a bearded hero, profile to the right, with his weight on his left leg, and his bent right leg advancing. He wears a long himation draped over his left shoulder and arm. In his lowered left hand he holds a piece of fruit, perhaps a pomegranate. In his outstretched right hand he holds a kantharos. In the left field rises a snake, whose head peers over the top of the kantharos.

Condition: Nearly complete

Sources Used: Svoronos 1903-12, 361-62, pl. 66