Fragment of a Terracotta Relief of a Woman and Child in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011

Title: Fragment of a terracotta relief of a woman and child

Medium; Technique: Terracotta

Culture: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

Period: Classical

Date: 4th century B.C.

Dimensions: H.: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) Other: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)

Classification: Terracottas

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1910

Accession Number: 10.210.75

Description:

The fragment probably belongs to a larger composition consisting of a reclining man and this group of a woman and child at his feet. The figures have been identified as the god Dionysos, Persephone, and Iakchos.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...