relief
- Museum number
- 1805,0703.138
- Description
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Marble relief: the visit of Priam to Achilles.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.40 centimetres
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Width: 48.26 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Cook 2011, nr. 248:
‘A Bas Relief 19 Inches long ten inches high representing Priam in the Phrygian dress and in a supplicating [changed to an humble] posture, begging the body of Hector from Achilles, who is dressed in armour and sits on a throne, under which lies his helmet – near Achilles stands a figure representing perhaps his freind Automedon, holding a spear and the long oval shield, on which is the thunder bolt. [It was added] Brought from Rome by Mr Morison’ (First Townley Inventory, relief 4).
Acquired from Mr Morison in 1784 in part exchange for the portrait bust identified as Albinus (present location unknown, Cook 2011, nr. 246).
Drawings:
* Townley drawing 2010,5006.275.
Bibliography:
- Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum (1808), VI.32;
- Ancient Marbles of the British Museum, X, pl. 40, fig. 2;
- A. H. Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Vol. III (London 1904), 271-2, no. 2217;
- S. Rogge, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs IX.1. Die attischen Sarkophage, 1. Achill und Hippolytos (Berlin, 1995), 96, note 41;
- Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, I, 155s.v. Achilles no. 697*.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1805
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1805,0703.138