Fragment of a Votive Relief in the Princeton University Art Museum, August 2009

Fragment of a Votive Relief
Greek, Attic, ca. 390-375 BC
Pentelic marble
Inscribed with names Ka..., Ol..., Theog[enes?], Archia[s], Myron, and Lykisk[os]

# Y1978-3

Parts of four figures are preserved, framed above by a simple entablature. A bearded man wearing a himation is accompanied by a young boy, beside whom is preserved the arm of a second child. The man raises his hand in worship as he approaches a god or goddess, of whom only a single hand remains. The deity was rendered in much larger scale, but his or her identity cannot be determined. The names of the dedicators are partially preserved in an inscription on the background. Reliefs of this type were a popular form of votive dedication in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC.

Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.