Agora Object: S 1289
Inventory Number:   S 1289
Section Number:   ΠΠ 145
Title:   Relief Fragment with Horse and Rider
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   The right edge preserved, dressed smooth; and the back, with a broad anathyrosis band running diagonally across it, 0.085m. to 0.135m. from the finished edge. Broken top, bottom and left. The upper forepart of the horse, lacking the head, and the left foreleg preserved. The body of the rider preserved from just below the shoulders to the knee.
Youthful male figure, riding right on a prancing horse. His left hand holds the reins; his right hangs at his side. His cloak, worn over his left shoulder, flutters behind him.
Low relief; very careful modeling.
Pentelic marble.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   N.-S. Trench VI, late Roman fill.
Notebook Page:   510
Negatives:   Leica, XXIX-24, 95-6-26
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.15; P.W. 0.195; Th. 0.017-0.023
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   21 July 1947
Section:   ΠΠ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 176, n. 37, pl. 54.1.
    Agora XXXVIII, no. 140, p. 111, pl. 41.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVIII
Publication: Hesperia 17 (1948)
Image: 2012.81.0080 (95-6-26)
Image: 2012.51.1410 (XXIX-24)
Image: 2002.03.1045 (XXIX-24)
Notebook: ΠΠ-2
Notebook: ΠΠ-3
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-2-43 (pp. 276-277)
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-3-60 (pp. 510-511)
Card: S 1289