ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Relief of Odysseus

AAT Object Form/Functionfigures (representations)

AAT Object Techniquerelief (sculpture techniques)

Place CreatedCyclades, Greece, Europe

CultureGreek

Date5th Century BCE

MediumTerracotta

Credit LineGift of Sybil and Ed Ralston, Andrés Mata Osorio, and Judy and Michael Steinhardt

Dimensions4 5/8 x 2 11/16 x 3/8 in. (11.7 x 6.8 x 1 cm)

Object number2016.038.001

Published ReferencesHotel Drouot, Paris, Collection H. Hoffmann. Antiquites: objets egyptiens, vases peints, terres cuites, verrerie, bronzes, bijoux, sculptures en marbre (15 Mai 1899), 43-44, number 129.
Paul Jacobsthal, Die Melischen Reliefs (Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Keller, 1931), 94 Cc.
Brian B. Shefton, "Odysseus and Bellerophon Reliefs," Bulletin de correspondance hellenique 82 (1958): 27-46.
James Chesterman, "A Melian Relief Rediscovered," Oxford Journal of Archaeology 6 (November 1987): 361-67.
James Chesterman, "A Melian Relief Rediscovered," Ancient 25 (July/August 1991): 7-10.
Florian Stilp, Die Jacobsthal-reliefs: Konturierte tonreliefs aus dem Griechenland der Fruhklassik (Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2006), 203, kat. 70, taf. XXX and LXVIII.
Bonhams London, Antiquities (30 November 2016), 18, lot 21.

ProvenanceEx coll. Henri Hoffmann (1823-1897), Pairs, France. With Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, May 15, 1899, number 129. Paris art market, December 1955. Ex coll. James Chesterman (1926-2014), Cambridge, England, purchased from Galerie Krimitsas, Paris, France, September 1985. Purchased by MCCM from Bonhams London, November 30, 2016, lot 21.

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