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Source Description
The relief shows Apollo, casually draped and leaning on a fluted column. His quiver is slung over his right shoulder and he holds a plectrum in his right hand. The right third of the plaque is missing. The missing section must have shown a lyre, held with his other hand and resting on a matching column. In fact the edge of the lyre's crossbar is just preserved to the right of his head, and the plaque appears to have broken along the line of the lyre and the column. A grooved border frames the composition.Plaques with Apollo and other gods were standard decoration for Roman jewelry boxes.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
1792
label
Apollo
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
1792
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Apollo
description
The relief shows Apollo, casually draped and leaning on a fluted column. His quiver is slung over his right shoulder and he holds a plectrum in his right hand. The right third of the plaque is missing. The missing section must have shown a lyre, held with his other hand and resting on a matching column. In fact the edge of the lyre's crossbar is just preserved to the right of his head, and the plaque appears to have broken along the line of the lyre and the column. A grooved border frames the composition.Plaques with Apollo and other gods were standard decoration for Roman jewelry boxes.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Alexandria, Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
3rd-4th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
plaques (flat objects)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
8.2
height
3.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 1/4 x W: 1 1/4 in. (8.2 x 3.2 cm)
Source extras
med
bone
creator_ids
6191
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
07d82a1a0c7745f0