Three Muses relief
| Collection: | Athens, National Archaeological Museum |
| Title: | Three Muses relief |
| Context: | From Mantinea |
| Findspot: | Found at Mantinea (in August 1887) |
| Summary: | Three standing muses |
| Object Function: | Cult |
| Sculptor: | Attributed to the workshop of Praxiteles |
| Material: | Marble |
| Sculpture Type: | Statue base, relief-decorated |
| Category: | Separated fragments |
| Style: | Late Classical |
| Technique: | Medium relief |
| Original or Copy: | Original |
| Date: | ca. 330 BC - ca. 320 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.97 m; W. 1.36 m |
| Scale: | Under life-size |
| Region: | Arcadia |
| Period: | Late Classical |
| In Whole: | Mantinea statue base |
Subject Description: Three standing muses, amply swathed in himatia covering chitons, and with slippers on their feet. The first, standing in 3/4-view to the the right, seems to hold an opened scroll in both hands, held just above waist level. The second, in a frontal posture, but with her head turned 3/4-view to the left, holds her right hand on her hip, and her left hand (holding perhaps a scroll) in front of her left thigh. The third stands nearly frontal, slightly to the left, grasps her skirt with her left hand, and holds a kithara up high with her outstretched right hand.
Condition: Intact
Condition Description: This one (of perhaps four original relief plaques) constitutes a rectangular relief plaque that is intact on all edges, but missing the heads of the figures.
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