drawing
- Museum number
- 2014,5006.6
- Description
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Study of a marble slab from Halicarnassus showing two warriors with shields
Pen and brown ink with traces of graphite underdrawing, pasted onto mount
- Production date
- 1844
- Dimensions
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Height: 148 millimetres (mount)
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Height: 111 millimetres
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Width: 212 millimetres (mount)
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Width: 98 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 2014,5006.1
Cook (2005) has identified this with the marble relief commemorating the release from service of two female gladiators, Amazon and Achillia (1847,0424.19 BM Cat. Sculpture 1117). It is, however, much more likely that the relief depicts a (now perhaps lost) fragment of the frieze of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, as do the other ten drawings in this series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by Nugent at the Christie's sale 14 July 1987, lot 7.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2014,5006.6
