relief;
votive plaque
- Museum number
- 1842,0728.1135
- Description
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Terracotta relief plaque ('Melian relief') with Bellerophon and the Chimaera, which takes the form of a lioness with a snake for a tail and the forepart of a goat emerging from the middle of her back.
- Production date
- 490BC-470BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Length: 17 centimetres
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Weight: 167 grammes
- Curator's comments
- F. Stilp, Die Jacobsthal Reliefs. Konturierte Tonreliefs aus dem Griechenland der Frühklassik. RdA Supplement 29 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2006), 179-180 no. 33. Stilp classifies the relief among his 'second block'..
- Location
- On display (G15/dc5)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 Jun-Oct Ulsan Museum, Ulsan, South Korea, 'Fantastic Creatures'.
2012 Jan-Apr, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 'Fantastic Creatures'
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1842,0728.1135
