Votive Relief with a Hero at the Banquet
Votive Relief with a Hero at the Banquet
3D
Published 2018-02-20T15:52:16+00:00
Thebes/Boeotia (Greece), acquired in 1884
Marble, 350-300 BC
The hero is depicted on a dining couch (kline) as reclining reveller with wine cup and drinking horn (rhyton). A hero's existence is an everlasting banquet (symposium). Six mortals approach him and his heroin in adoration from the left. Such images illustrate a common notion of the time, that of the afterlife as a paradise (elysium).
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| Date published | 20/02/2018 |
| Title | Votive Relief with a Hero at the Banquet |
| Date | 350-300 BC |
| Accession | Sk 825 |
| Medium | Marble |
| Credit | Altes Museum |
| Record | http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/altes-museum/home.html |
| Place | Altes Museum |
