Roman Terracotta Relief Plaque in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2008

Relief of a youth and girl, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 b.c.–68 a.d.
Roman
Terracotta


H. 12 in. (30.5 cm)
Fletcher Fund, 1926 (26.60.33)


Rectilinear mold-made terracotta plaques decorated with painted reliefs were a common form of decoration on the interior walls of private villas, public baths, and monumental tombs during the late Republic and early Imperial periods (ca. 50 B.C.–50 A.D.). They often depicted scenes derived from Classical Greek art and mythology, as here.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/26.60.31-.33