Pentelic Marble Fragment of a Hero Relief in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

Marble fragment of a hero relief

Period:Classical

Date:late 5th century B.C.

Culture:Greek, Attic

Medium:Marble, Pentelic

Dimensions:H. 9 3/16 in. (23.32 cm.) width 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) depth 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

Classification:Stone Sculpture

Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1924

Accession Number:24.97.98

Inscribed on the molding above the relief, KALLO...

A woman holds out a wreath whose painted leaves and flowers are no longer preserved to another figure of whom only the right hand survives. In the background are traces of a small figure and a horse's head and neck. The figure receiving the wreath, a hero, reclined on a couch, while the female figure sat on or near its foot.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/251526