relief;
funerary equipment
- Museum number
- 1805,0703.440
- Description
-
Marble funerary relief: a man and a youth recline at a banquet attended by a woman. A family group lead a pig to sacrifice.
- Production date
- 400BC (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 35.56 centimetres
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Width: 66.04 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Cook 2011, nr. 310:
A funeral banquet relief. Formerly in the collection of the Earl of Bessborough at Roehampton. On 2 April 1801, Townley went to Lord Bessborough’s at Roehampton to see the marbles that were to be sold from the collection of the second Earl, who had died in 1793, and on 7 April, he went to the sale (TY 1/15). There he bought four items, one of which was later reported to have been given to Henry Blundell.
Bought by Townley at the Bessborough sale on 7 April 1801, and collected from Brown the mason (‘the Bas. rel. of the coena ferialis’) on 20 April (TY 1/15).
Date:
ca. 300 BC (Thönges-Stringaris, ref. to Seidl); Attic, end of IV BC (Mitropoulou).
Drawings:
* Engravings TY 13/18/1-3 (2010,5006.1878.60 to 62);
* see also H. Ellis (Sir), The Townley Gallery of Classic Sculpture in the British Museum, 2 vols. (London, 1846)
* RM Ergänzungsheft 33 (Mainz, 1994) II, 168, note 8.
Bibliography:
- Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum (1837), XI.8.2;
- A. H. Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Vol. I (London 1892), 335, no. 713;
- I. Seidl, Das Totenmahlrelief (Vienna, 1940), no. 266.
- R. N. Thönges-Stringaris, ‘Das griechische Totenmahreliefl’, AM 80 (1965), 89, no. 144;
- E. Mitropoulou, Horses’ Heads and Snake in Banquet Reliefs and their Meaning (Athens, 1976), 32, no. 15.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1805
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1805,0703.440
