Gilded silver relief
This relief once may have decorated a box. The panels show (right to left) a dancing woman, a centaur battling Herakles, the goddess Aretmis in an oriental form as Mistress of Animals, and a gorgon.
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This relief once may have decorated a box. The panels show (right to left) a dancing woman, a centaur battling Herakles, the goddess Aretmis in an oriental form as Mistress of Animals, and a gorgon.
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Title: Gilded silver relief
Period: Archaic
Date: 7th–6th century BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Silver, gold
Dimensions:
Fragment with Heracles and centaur: 1 5/8 x 2 11/16 in. (4.1 x 6.8 cm)
Fragment with Gorgon: 1 1/16 x 1 5/16 in. (2.7 x 3.3 cm)
Fragment with Artemis: 2 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. (5.4 x 3.5 cm)
Fragment with female figure: 1 1/4 x 7/8 in. (3.2 x 2.2 cm)
Classification: Gold and Silver
Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1927
Object Number: 27.122.23a–e
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