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Description
English: Apparition of the Dioscuri at a banquet. Upper tier: the Dioscuri as riders wearing a short chiton and a chlamys, galloping above a winged Victory; lower tier: banqueting couch (kline), rectangular table with cakes and altar with a man laying an offering and a woman raising an object towards the sky. Inscription: ‘To the Great Gods, Danaa daughter of Aphtonetos (Atthoneiteia)’.
Français : Apparition des Dioscures à un banquet. Registre supérieur : les Dioscures représentés comme des cavaliers vêtus d'un chiton court et d'une chlamyde, galopant au)dessus d'une Victoire ailée ; registre inférieur : lit de banquet, table rectangulaire couverte de gâteaux, avec un homme déposant une offrande et une femme levant un objet vers le ciel. Inscription : « Aux Grands Dieux, Danaa, fille d'Aphtonetos (Atthoneiteia) ».
Date 2nd century BC
date QS:P571,-150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium marble
medium QS:P186,Q40861
Dimensions height: 63.5 cm (25 in); width: 40.5 cm (15.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,63.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,40.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Denon wing, ground floor
Accession number
Ma 746
Object history
English: From Larissa, Thessalia, 1861
Français : Provenance : Larissa, Thessalie, 1861
Credit line excavated during the archaeological mission of Henri Daumet et Léon Heuzey; no accession number, 1863
Inscriptions
  • [TOI]Σ ΘΕΟΙΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΙΣ ΔΑΝΑΑ ΑΤΘΕΝΕΙΤΕΙ[Α]
References Marianne Hamiaux, Les Sculptures grecques II, no.198 Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 31272
Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011)
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Relief (2nd century BC) depicting the Dioskouroi galloping above a winged Victory, with a banquet (theoxenia) laid out for them below

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