votive plaque;
relief
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.134
- Description
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Terracotta relief plaque ('Melian relief'): Eos carries off Kephalos.
- Production date
- 490BC-470BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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F. Stilp, Die Jacobsthal Reliefs. Konturierte Tonreliefs aus dem Griechenland der Frühklassik. RdA Supplement 29 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2006), 170-171 no. 21. Stilp classifies the relief among his 'second block'.
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Attributed to Fikellura grave 172, based on evidence from Biliotti's marking on the object (grave number on label), Biliotti's Kamiros diary, Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register, departmental Kamiros index card. Description in Biliotti's Kamiros diary: Flat terracotta winged female figure carrying a baby in her arms – traces of yellow, black, blue, white and red colours (1 entire).
Attributions to find-spots are based on (1) Alfred Biliotti’s diary kept during excavations at Kamiros between November 1863 and June 1864, which records the contents of two votive deposits and over 300 graves; (2) entries in the Museum Register, often stipulating the find-spots of individual objects excavated by Biliotti; (3) the Kamiros tomb list, produced around the same time as his entries in the Museum Register. It lists the contents of each grave and votive deposit, along with their corresponding registration numbers; (4) the Kamiros index cards, written by Donald Bailey in the 1960’s. These mainly record the contents of graves from the Fikellura cemetery and are organised according to tomb group. All archives are kept in the Department of Greece and Rome. In addition, Reynold Higgins’ Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1954) has been checked for attributions to the Fikellura cemetery.
- Location
- On display (G15/dc2)
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.134
