Base for a dedication depicting Demos and Aphrodite

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 3014

Category

Sculpture

Period

Classical Period

Date

Around 410 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.42 m
Length: 0.2 m
Width: 0.44 m

Material

Marble from Penteli

Location

First Floor, North

Description
Bibliography

Fragmentarily preserved base on which stood a dedication, possibly a statue. It is decorated in relief on both sides and was found at the Odeion of Herodes Atticus.

On its one side a seated man with a wreath in his right hand and a shield placed before him is portrayed. He may be the personification of the Deme of Athens, in other words the whole of the citizens and city-state constitutions. The letters NA on the lowest part of the band that runs around the relief were probably inscribed in modern times. On the other side a seated woman, most possibly the goddess Aphrodite, holds a pigeon.

Schöne, R., Griechische Reliefs aus athenischen Sammlungen, Leipzig, 1872, σελ. 51, πίν. XXIV.100, αρ. κατ. 100
Sybel, L. von, Katalog der Sculpturen zu Athen, Marburg, 1881, σελ. 398, αρ. κατ. 6434
Friederichs, C., Wolters, P., Die Gipsabgüsse antiker Bildwerke, Berlin, 1885, σελ. 393, αρ. κατ. 1183
Walter, O., Beschreibung der Reliefs im kleinen Akropolismuseum in Athen, Wien, 1923, σελ. 183, εικ. 390, αρ. κατ. 390
Kosmopoulou, A., The Iconography of sculptured statue bases in the archaic and classical periods, Madison/Wisconsin, 2002, σελ. 176-177, εικ. 29-30, αρ. κατ. 14