Pentelic Marble Fragment of a Hero Relief in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2020

Title: Marble fragment of a hero relief

Period: Classical

Date: late 5th century BCE

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