Collection: | Athens, Acropolis Museum |
Title: | Acropolis Chariot Relief |
Context: | From Athens, Acropolis |
Findspot: | Found at Athens, Acropolis |
Summary: | Four-horse chariot |
Object Function: | Votive? |
Material: | Marble |
Sculpture Type: | Stele (?), relief-decorated |
Category: | Separated fragments |
Style: | Early Archaic |
Technique: | High relief |
Original or Copy: | Original |
Date: | ca. 570 BC |
Scale: | Under life-size |
Region: | Attica |
Period: | Early Archaic |
Subject Description: The chariot was shown in a frontal view, emerging from a red (?) background, with the heads of two horses turned out and two turned in. The chariot and charioteer were probably sculpted in low relief and/or painted on the background. Brouskari suggests that a head in the Acropolis Museum (
Condition: Fragmentary
Condition Description: The horses are fragmentary; the mane seems to have been painted green.
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