ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Votive Relief with Banquet Scene

AAT Object Form/FunctionBas-relief (sculpture technique)

Place CreatedGreece, Europe

CultureGreek

Periodlate Classical

Date400-350 BCE

MediumMarble (Pentelikon)

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions15 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (38.4 x 39.4 cm)

Object number1984.016

Exhibition HistoryAn Enduring Ideal: Classical Art from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, November 1, 1992 - February 15, 1993
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 28, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Confronting Slavery in the Classical World, Michael C. Carlos Museum (virtual exhibition), September 29, 2021 - December 19, 2021
Published ReferencesSotheby's London, Paintings and Works of Art from the Collections of the Late Lord Clark of Saltwood O.M., C.H., K.C.B. (5 July 1984), lot 120.
Bonna D. Wescoat and Monique Seefried, "Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology Reopens," Archaeology 38 (May/June 1985): 63.
John P. Bodel and Stephen V. Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist (Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1997), 22.

ProvenanceEx coll. Kenneth Clark OM, CH, KCB, FBA (1903-1983), England, perhaps from 1930s. Sotheby's London, July 5, 1984, lot 120. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Thomas Howard-Sneyd (1940-2010), London, England.

Status

On view

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