Statuette base with feet of a man and a dog

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 431

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Sculpture

Period

Archaic Period

Date

510-500 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.049 m
Length: 0.19 m
Width: 0.01 m
Thickness: plinth 0.026

Material

Marble from Paros

Location

Not on display

Description
Bibliography

Plinth preserving the feet of a man and an animal, most likely a dog. The man is walking placing his left foot forward, keeping the dog to his left.

This fragment has been associated with a statuette of Herakles (Ακρ. 638). If the association is correct then this sculpture would depict Herakles leading Cerberus.

Dickins, G., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum, Archaic Sculpture, I, Cambridge, 1912, σελ. 111-112, αρ. κατ. 431
Langlotz, E., Schuchhardt, W., Schrader, H., Die archaischen Marmorbildwerke der Akropolis, Frankfurt am Main, 1939, σελ. 290-291, εικ. 335, αρ. κατ. 415
Payne, H., Young, G.R., Αρχαϊκή μαρμάρινη πλαστική από την Ακρόπολη. Φωτογραφικός Κατάλογος, Αθήνα, 1997, σελ. 100, εικ. 124.4