Marble relief fragment with male torso
Not on view
The figure wears a body cuirass (breastplate and backplate), which is detectable only along bottom edge where the vertical folds of a short chiton are visible. This type of cuirass was no longer in fashion in the 1st century B.C., when the relief was carved, but was commonly used in sculpture for heroic figures. The fragment was originally part of a larger scene that decorated a votive or funerary relief.
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